Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

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

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.