It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

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

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

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

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

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.