History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

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

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.