And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.