“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I beg...”

“I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.”

“Nothing is ever certain.”

“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, for...”