Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

It's the cynics who never get married.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.