Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.