“...glass words for you, Belovedrain beads from an abacus of pain...”

“...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...”

“children need calmtheyre artists”

“deprived of magic, wonder wanes”

“had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses soft as April snowflakes”

“I get mixed up with the life we led and the life I imagined”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”