“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”