People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.