Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.