When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.