I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.