And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.