I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.