I learned, from that, to distrust any kindness toward my daughter that has never once been tested by cost.

Real love is not proven in the easy years.

It is proven in the moment it becomes expensive — and it is only in that moment that you ever truly find out what a person meant by it all along.

Chapter 8 — There Will Be No Ceremony

The processional music began, because the coordinator had not seen our confrontation near the trees.

Guests turned toward the aisle.