It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.