“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”

“A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying”

“you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”