She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.