“If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.”

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, th...”

“The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.”

“She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage i...”

“She has never tried to find out what happened to her family her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back ...”

“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud."It cer...”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”