Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.