“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

“Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.”

“She misses him more now than when he was away”

“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

“When Agatha already felt like she was dying, for a second she thought about turning him into a eunuch for life, in self-defense, she would argue.”

“She told me once that the year she went to England she painted her buttons yellow so she would remember what the sun felt like.”

“33,000 e-mails are missing. And she's so guilty. She's so guilty.”

“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.”

“She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure.
"Oh, God."
"Nay, lass. Connor.”

“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”