You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

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

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 did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

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

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.