But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.