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

“Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and when we stared at the stars, we were really beholding a million lives twinkling back at us, asking us not to forget.”

“Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears, it's as unexpected and shocking as hail in the middle of June.”

“What I really wanted to do was linger in the tidy lines that Marcus had scored into the earth. I wanted to sit in the exact center of the spiral and wait for the plants to unfurl themselves. I wanted them to climb and rove over my limbs until I burst into bloom with them.”

“Well, the way I see it, honey, love's love, whatever shape it comes in.”

“On the face of things, we were hopelessly mismatched, but somehow we fit together perfectly.”

“...but life doesn't give us the option to remake our decisions, only the power to reconceive them”