If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.