“She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.”

“i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.”

“She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.”

“My mother was a strong, domineering woman, probably scared to death of the position she found herself in She was psychotic, attempting suicide several times and scaring the devil out of me as a kid with threats... One day [she] would say that she loved me, and the next day she'd scream that she was sorry I'd ever been born -- that I'd ruined her life... [She] would often stuff her mouth with cotton and hold her breath, pretending that she was dead, to scare me when I was small. Sometimes she'd tell me she really could walk and during the night she was going to get up, turn on the gas jets, and kill us both. I would be absolutely terrified... And yet... she encouraged my writing and would tell me that I was a good kid and she didn't know why she acted that way... but then she'd do it again.”

“Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.”

“She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.”

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

“She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.”

“Who was she? Who was my mother? Tell me where she is. Take me to her.”

“She's gonna listen to her heart.
It's gonna tell her what to do.
She might need a lot of loving,
But she don't need you.”