Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

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

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

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.

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.