"I knew I must have been loved like that, even if I can't remember it. I must have; otherwise how could I even recognize love when I saw it that night between May and Ob?" (Page 4).

"May would tell Cletus and me, if she were here right now, that it's okay to grab for something or somebody that's being swept away from you. She'd tell us to hold on tight because we're all meant to be together. We're all meant to need each other" (Page 23).

"I felt more than ever cut apart from him, sent off on my own while he took off on his, while he made plans to set aside this life we both knew so purely to try to make it to another one he knew nothing about except that somewhere in it he might find May" (Page 30).

"Just like there are certain ways people...