But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.