Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Once an asshole, always an asshole.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.