He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

So that's the ghost you been running from.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.