“There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.”

“It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.”

“There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.”