“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

What does it remember like?

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

With writing, we have second chances.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

We fall in love with eyes and lies.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I’m not unreasonable I just think it’s very reasonable you would fall in love with me.

She was always falling in love with the complexities of the human heart.

I’m the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.

Oh, darling, you fell in love with a girl not worth loving.