She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

Luck never gives; it lends.