"All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely..."
- Kim Edwards
"Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm."
"She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away."
"It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started."
"He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers."
"In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpse..."
"Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence."
"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell."
"He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that w..."
"Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience."