Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.