She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.