Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.