But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.

Apparently there were seven stages of grief but that was a neat way of putting it. Grief was messy and didn't colour inside the lines

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

I love to sing, and I love to talk to people at meet-and-greets.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.