“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”

“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend th...”

“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”

“And she thought then how strange it was that disasterthe sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the facecould be at...”

“Night would settle in like slow blindness, sucking the color from the trees and the low sky and the rocks and the frozen grass and the frost white hydrangeas until there was nothing left in the win...”

“Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as we...”

“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”

“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend th...”

“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leavi...”

“I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.”

“In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”