God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.