“We examine each day before us with barely a glance and say, no, this isn't the one I've been looking for.”

“I've wanted this for so long."Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. "We barely know each other.""No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.”

“I started wondering about life stories, how each one of us has one that isn't apparent at first glance, what we tell the world about ourselves and what we deliberately tuck away and never reveal.”

“It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking.”

“This is me before I come undone. This is me before I fall apart. I've been tired for days and days. I've been tired for days and days.”

“Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.”