Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.