A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.