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

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

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

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.