In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?