We are all children until our fathers die.

I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.