“Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break.”

“It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the...”

“Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.”

“Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.”

“Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.”

“He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.”

“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as...”

“If Im perplexed by the fact that Im constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head Ive determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.”

“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.”

“But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?”

“God knows the WHY , we only receiving the wisdom.”

“Death is not the end! The exit for the world of mortals is the entrance to the world of immortals!”

“The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understand...”