If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

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?

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.