When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things