“She says she's ok but underneath her smile is her broken heart”
“I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.”
“Inside all of us, she reflected, were smiling bones. She would do her best to remember from now on that even on the hardest days there was always a smile underneath her skin.”
“There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.”
“She wondered briefly if perhaps she could leave her broken heart here in the cemetery and just take the rest of her home.”
“Kitty waved her free hand to show that she was ok, although she was very tempted to stand over one of Adam’s window-washing puddles and pretend her waters had broken just to see what he would do.”