I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.