Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one with the other person, merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.