I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.