It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.