“Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“What defines you isn’t how many times youcrash, but the number of times you get back.”

“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

“Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”

“It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.”