That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.