Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now