You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.