“And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and well do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.”

“What else can you tell me? Dad stares at me. What have you learned while you were awake?I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the...”

“Im here and hes not. That Im alive and hes”

“Ive heard that when youre in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and youre hyper-aware of whats...”

“The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than Ive ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they dont show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...”

“I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. Thisthisthis is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”