Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.