But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

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

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

She wanted him to notice her so much.