There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

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.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

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