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

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

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.

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

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.

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.