“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight ...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”

“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, on...”

“I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.”

“I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”

“It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”

“Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.”

“Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.”