Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

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

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees