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

Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!

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.

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.