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“Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.”
“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”
“I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his...”
“Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.”
“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”
“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”
“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”
“It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.”
“I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.”
“That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself." (pg. 342)”
“Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.”
