One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.

Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.