Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy