Quotes from Sarah-Kate Lynch

I need laughter. I need joy. I need to be happy. And I need to be loved, Hugh — deliriously, openly, continuously loved. And I need to be UNDERSTOOD.

think the love is still there but, Hugh, I just don't know if that's enough. When I ask you if you can understand how I feel, I need you to at least try, because otherwise I'm just another lost banana-picker.

You'll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?

Heavenly Hirani says that in India you don't need to die to be reincarnated, and I think that's what has happened to me. I'm a new person now and I'm done with the old one. I don't know if we can go back.

Maybe you'll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don't know what you'll be. That's the problem, right there in a nutshell.

how would you ever know that if you stayed your whole life in the same patch?

Theo Fitzgerald," she said, still trying to shake off the night's uninvited visitor. "I mean, really!" The shake turned into yet another shiver, the sort usually inspired by a particularly wicked mouthful of very rich, supersmooth, utterly sinful ice cream.

if you plant yourself anywhere in the ground for long enough you start to take root

Bad things happen, but good things happen, too, ma'am. Sometimes you must make yourself know about the good things. Especially in India.

You had to make yourself know about the good things

Mum" for beautiful and "taz" for royal.

The next day there was still no sign of Sugar's 5A neighbor, although the window boxes had been rearranged overnight, the mint harvested and Thai basil planted in its place. Again, the window was open and the heavenly scent of something deliciously cakelike was swirling around the rooftop.

Truthful, tick. Gentle, tick. Fearless? Well, she'd never told her daughter she'd disappointed her before, so tick, tick, tick.

She was tired of cleaning up after everyone even though she wanted to because that would mean they had a better time.

It seemed that a lot of what she was thinking about now wasn't exactly new: it had just settled at the bottom of her life like sediment while she got on with things. Now the sediment had been stirred by grief and change.

Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She looked rich and mean, the opposite of his own mother, and he felt proud that Sugar had turned out the way she had despite that.