“and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.”

“He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.”

“But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.”

“I rush to her side and touch her cold skin, hoping against hope for a pulse.”

“I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.”

“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.”

“As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...”