“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.”

“All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.”

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

“I raised, and I have raised, millions of dollars for the vets. I'm helping the vets a lot. I think my popularity with the vets is through the roof, far greater than hers. She's done nothing. All she's done is tell everybody that the vets are in good shape. They're fine. And they're not fine. People are waiting on line for seven days to see a doctor. She thinks it's fine.”

“But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.”

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

“I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”