But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?