I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.