People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.