Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.