I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.