"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.

Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?