I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.