We are all children until our fathers die.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

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

i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.