Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.