I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.