Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.