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“I’d tell her that only love will fill the black hole- that it’s the only thing worth chasing.” (Annie).

Annie ran away

“I looked in both directions, then jogged across the street, very much aware that after all these years, there was suddenly absolutely nothing standing between us.” -Ryan

“”I did believe that if two good people found each other, they could cling to one another and stay afloat. But all I’d experienced was people grabbing my hand and plunging us deeper into the abyss.” -Ryan

“No matter what else had changed, no matter how brutal whatever had been, and whatever was about to come next, this remained: Amanda, beautiful in every setting, at every stage.”

“More beautiful, in the end, than perfect things, which are usually an illusion of some sort. I hoped that I had given her a beautiful life.”

“I don’t know what she was thinking in that moment, but she did reach for my hand and held it without letting go. And that was enough for me.”

“When I saw Cate Kay/the very last on my list, I took it as a sign from Charlene.”

“I wanted to know everything Charlene thought about life or anything else. “And what’s that my love?”

“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what is around you beautiful, and it will grow from there. Took me a long time to see that.”

“I hoped so dearly that she meant that even though our love hadn’t been perfect, that it has been beautiful in its own way. Broken things are beautiful.

“The main characters- Samantha and Persephone, they remind me of when I was younger. They want so much from the world. Seems they haven’t learned the most important lessons yet.”

“She died of breast cancer the year the final book of the very last was released.”(Carl’s wife, Charlene).

“I took a leave of absence and never left her side, nor did I want to. I was steadfast and loyal. Maybe not the qualities she had pined for as a younger woman, but good ones in the end.”

“Charlene was the book person in the family.”