How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.