Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

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.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.