I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.