“Love makes us such fools.”

“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”

“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”

“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”

“children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people”

“She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”