Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke