“He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.”

“He didn't look back. He never did”

“I stared at him. Did he really say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away.
Because I remembered. I remembered everything.”

“Here's how they rated him when the looked back:
sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.”

“I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.”

“I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.”

“In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.”

“She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.”