"When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became s…"

"When he gave it to her that day, she’d held it up to the light, turning it back and forth, until his hands had come o…"

"In the moments before, she laid a hand on his arm. 'No matter what,' she said, giving him a look, 'you cannot stop."

"Allie had trouble convincing herself that the reason they had gotten married years later did not have to do with the …"

"He certainly wasn’t about to let a murderer off the hook because the man was his cousin. And bending the laws would b…"

"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love firs…"

"There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give."

"WE ARE ALL, I SUPPOSE, beholden to our parents—the question is, how much?"

"They sat me down and told me all the usual stuff, of course—but they also explained that they chose little embryonic …"

"The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to …"