"Grief is love."
"It was hard for me to accept the fact that we don't choose who we love, because who you love changes everything."
"He was her heart. He had changed all the molecules inside her. Sylvie had known love would come for her with the force of a tsunami. She'd dreamed of this."
"When your love for a person is so profound that it's part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin."
"Stop thinking about who you were when you were living the wrong life, William. You're built for the life you're living now."
"She wondered if dying was simply going to be an exercise in letting go of one thing after another."
"She was no longer who she used to be, she was and she wasn't yet whoever she was becoming."