You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again