I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.