You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?