Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.