Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.