The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.