What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.