We writers are resilient souls.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

Since I've had children I don't really like horror movies.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

I make a lot of money in my life, 50.000 dollars are nothing.

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.