“But you can't worry about what life's going to spit in your direction.”

“Even back then, I guess, I suspected that sometimes the only available choice in life is to spit on death and run.”

“Who says all the lines of love are supposed to match up? I'd never thought about it that way before - that maybe your perfect other wasn't everything you already were, but everything you were never going to be.”

“She never understood that love -- especially that of a child -- was the most necessary weight you can endure in life, even if it hurts, even if it tugs bags under the skin of your eyes. Without it, the soul skitters to the edge of the world and teeters there, confused.”

“We see what we want to see in life, regardless of whether it's really in front of us or not...”

“A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”

“There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.”