“Its just so strange.You used to love me,and now youre a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.”

“Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.”

“All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.”

“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying tree climb jumps. Growing up, my backyard was a forest of blackberry bushes. ...”

“But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though its nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.”

“I thought leaving you would be easy, just walking out the door but I keep getting pinned against it with my legs around your waist and its like my lips want you like my lungs want air, its just wha...”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”