“If untruths become part of our languageuntruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speechthen each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning...”

“It was only in the middlebetween the immense and the minutethat sadness seemed to exist.”

“Morality doesnt exist in space, only in the spaces between people.”

“When you look at it objectively, thats what most colonists dothey land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was perm...”

“If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meani...”

“It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.”

“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”

“Happiness is my drug of choice.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”