I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

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.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.