“Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.”

“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”

“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

“When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.”

“moving on means we have to protect ourselves.”

“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark.”

“I'm not letting go of you.”

“I'm not letting go of you" - Sam”

“Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others”

“Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.”

“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”