"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."
- Sara Gruen
"With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not."
"Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and ..."
"I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life."
"After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled."
"I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow."
"Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks"
"You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of."
"When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?"
"Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?"