She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

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

The path of your life can change in an instant.