..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.