“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”

“I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about P...”

“Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. O...”

“Healing wasnt always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen af...”

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didnt come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you werent ready, when you were just innocently flossing your t...”

“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”

“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”

“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”