She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.