What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.

“He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in d…”

“Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely sep…”

“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

“He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, l…”