I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?