These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

I think that different things sell in different countries.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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?

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.