“Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.”

“I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. ...”

“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nat...”

“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to ...”

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap...”

“Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.”

“No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.”

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”

“No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.”

“What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.”

“Shh, kitten, he whispered in English once more, nuzzling her temple, mouth open and hot against her ear. Trust me. His palms curved beneath her breasts, lifting them as his blunt fingertips tweaked...”

“What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.”