I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.