“Heres the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. Im the rebel. Th...”

“The ending is coming. I can feel it. I dont know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will take...”

“I stand still for a long time, holding the note, and let it all sink in. Her leaving is almost palpable like a gale-force wind thats rolled into my life in the span of a single evening and left beh...”

“Finally, I formulate and say a little prayer to God, and since we havent officially spoken since my mom and Elliott died that takes up quite a bit of my time. The rest of it I spend on trying to de...”

“Yet she lays out this family plan the way youd say, After yoga, Ill go to Lias for the mani-special and then wax on about hairstyles and hemlines until dinner.If I were gifted at making long-term p...”

“The ending is coming. I can feel it. I don’t know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will tak...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”