The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.