They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

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

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

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.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.