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

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

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

“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...”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”