“Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.”

“What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.”

“What are you worried about, Burke?""You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.”

“Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.”

“Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.”

“Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”