Tibby was shaking her head. "What?" Bailey asked. "Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?