It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

I miss something I never even had.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.