“I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.”

“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”

“I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.”

“Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys show them these words when they cant remember me.”

“Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”

“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”

“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”