It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

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

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works