Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.

Every scar in my face is worth it.