And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?

Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.