“Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.”

“It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”

“She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.”

“But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.”

“call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.”

“Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

“I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.”