Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

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

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.