She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.