You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.