Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.