We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.