We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.