Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the...

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

aren’t always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something...

It’ll cheer you up!

Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.

…no pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn’t give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer...