What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.