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

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

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

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

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.