What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.

They say everyone needs something to love.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.