“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”

“Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.”

“whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her”

“She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipher...”

“When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will ...”

“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”

“Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.”

“It's too late.I chose life too late.”