I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.