"Love means knowing when to let go."
— Tony Parsons (Man and Boy: A Novel)

"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride."
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

"The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides."
— Alice Sebold (The Almost Moon)

"I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make."
— Anita Shreve (Light on Snow)

"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end."
— Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
— Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

"Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying."
— Lois Lowry (Number The Stars)