I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

We are all children until our fathers die.

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

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