Quotes from Edie Claire

I've already made plans with a taxidermist" — she smiled sweetly — "but thank you." She

Sometimes, when the music calls, you just gotta dance.

pulled my jacket tighter

It was as though the dark part of my past had become a physical being, a black beast pounding on the gates of my memory.

I don't understand it either, Mom," I answered, fidgeting. Even though my old bedroom had been completely redone, it held an uncanny power to make me feel like a child again. "But you don't need to worry about me. I'll be fine. I promise." She made a move to rise, and I offered my arm. Getting up and down, I noticed, had recently become an effort for her. "You

meant action was expected. But it wasn't too late. All I had to do was tell him

Guys who grow up with sisters are trained better

avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously

cracked a grin. Evidently, I wasn't the only one with a penchant for childhood trivia. Why shouldn't I have a barbecue with him? Barton's was hardly a "date" restaurant—we'd be lucky to get a booth. Besides, he was the talkative type, and I had always suspected that my mother's news of Wharton was filtered for my benefit. A fresh perspective could prove interesting. "Okay.

been extolling for the last twenty minutes, then fixed me with a polite stare. "Is something wrong?" I opened my mouth

You reach thirty-five as a single woman, and you're branded either militantly independent or just plain pathetic. But a single thirty-five-year-old man—now, he's the hottest thing going. An eligible bachelor.

don't understand why you would want

There have been a few small

If you see my name on one more police report, you're going to put me under house arrest and sentence me to watch Martha Stewart Living 24/7.

shouldn't they? She had given her maiden name

already." She withdrew a set of keys from her pocket, gave them a

missing. All I knew was that whatever I was looking for, I couldn't find it with anyone

The past can't touch you unless you let it.

Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

Knowing a large proportion of your fellow citizens was one thing; but when you recognized each other's pets by name, you knew you'd never get a Red Lobster.

Of all the places I didn't want to live, the past was at the top of the list.

way, and I could see how her timorousness

Oddly, Leigh couldn't think of anything to say. How exactly should one respond to a threat spelled out in fish?

Zane," I whispered breathlessly, knowing it was wrong, but powerless to stop myself. "If things were different... if you were alive... and I was alive-" "Yes," he said immediately, interrupting me. He leaned in closer. His voice was no more than a whisper. "Absolutely, yes. Don't ever doubt it, Kail.