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

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.

You should find him because he loves you.

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

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

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.