you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away....

There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn’t neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted...

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you’re 26, and it’s all downhill after that.

It’s the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.