In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else. - Gabrielle Zevin

It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.

I've thought a lot about it. The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

I've been blue, lately," Sam admitted. "And I wondered, how do you get over that sort of thing?" "Work helps," Sadie said. "Games help. But sometimes, when I'm really low, I keep a particular image in my mind." "What is it?" "I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it's one of our games, but sometimes, it's any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I'm feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.