We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

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

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.