You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

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.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

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

I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.