How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.