“There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”

“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.''Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”

“There is nothing perfect, there is only life.”

“There is nothing perfect...only life.”

“There is nothing perfect...there is only life.”

“I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.”

“June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off.”