I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

The time has to be right and the heart willing.

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

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