“Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.”

“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away ag...”

“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...”

“The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.”

“You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.”

“You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.”

“The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.”

“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wild...”

“Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.”