I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.