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

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

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

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

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

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

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