“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.”

“Seeing a guest come, she feels shy;
Her stockings coming down, away she tries to fly.
Her hairpin drops;
She never stops
But to look back.
She leans against the door,
Pretending to sniff at mume blossoms once more.”

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

“If tomorrow never comes,
Will she know how much I loved her?
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one?
And if my time on earth were through,
And she must face the world without me,
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last?
If tomorrow never comes.”

“How could she know what she wanted to do with her life? All these years she thought she'd be a healer like Mama, and now she knew it was never going to happen.”

“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

“Like many of her sex, Sophie was fiercely competitive with other women, working on the crackpot theory that if she could be better in some way, men would like her more, respect her. Make her happy. She never cottoned on that the men she was attracted to, the men who found her attractive, didn’t like women.”

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