They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.