Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.