Very well,” Beatrix said reluctantly. “But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match.” “I’m resistant to the match,” Christopher informed her. “At least we’ll have that in common.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.