"Cars were conveyors of privacy. Without them, you lived a lot more of your life out in the open. Where you went, who …"

"Would her hair have gotten as dark as that? Could her shape have changed into that? No and no, obviously. At this dis…"

"What was the matter with her? It was just him! It was the same old Paul. But it also wasn't. He was the strangest of …"

"It was funny the things the three of them talked about. Often it was the concrete things they hung upon. Concrete or …"

"It brought to mind the problem of babysitting for the children of family friends. They underpaid you because they fel…"

"Some people had gifts that made them great at being kids. Riley had those gifts. She was fearless, and she was fair. …"

"Riley made it seem like they were all gods of their world, but Alice know that Riley was really the god. She just gav…"

"Alice felt disloyal to Riley when she began to realize, much later, that her natural talents, her ability to communic…"

"She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better."

"She couldn't picture his face when he was gone. Every summer he came back wearing his same face that she could not re…"