“Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.”

“What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?”

“The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.”

“Deep down, everyone wants the truth.”

“The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.”

“Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”