To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

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

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.