You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.