"Not that I didn't like Lorna Queen. She was nice enough for someone who broke up my parents' marriage. My mother, in all fairness, always blamed my father and limited her hostility to the nickname Weather Pet."
Haven as narrator, Chapter 1, pages 3-4

"I want you girls to know how much I love your father. I'm going to make him just as happy as I can, and I'm so glad we're all going to be a family."
Lorna Queen, Chapter 1, page 14

"It wasn't that Sumner went looking for adventure on purpose, more that it just stumbled across him. And for Ashley and me and my entire family, it was fun just to be along for the ride."
Haven as narrator, Chapter 2, page 25

"[Ashley] was ready to become someone else. She would take her dramatics and her tattoo and her legends of boyfriends to a new home, and we...