That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.