"As I watched her leave, my mind shot ahead to a time in the future when we would not share a room, when our daily lives would not overlap. The idea made me feel as if I were being held underwater. Then I thought, you’re being so ridiculous; you have almost three more years together, and I could breathe again. But I knew, I always knew- and as unhappy as I often was, the knowledge never made me feel better; instead it seemed the worst part of all- that our lives at Ault were only temporary."

“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

“But while I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

“Before or after your stole my best friend? But the real question is if you were using me to get to Martha all along, or if you just took an opportunity when you saw it.”

“Hardly ever did it matter if you brushed your hair before driving to the grocery store, rarely did you work in an office where you cared what more than two or three people thought of you. At Ault, caring about everything was draining, but it was also exhilarating.”

“But then she’d know what she’d probably only suspected- how messed up I really was, how much I’d been misleading them for the last four years.”