We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

No use crying over spilled milk.

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

Passion - eventually it cools.

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

You’re a nosy sleuth like me because you can’t help it, ” Alma said.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.