There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.