My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

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.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

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