She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.