She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.