I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
And to see years all present in your face.
Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me.
Love you...Henry-Always...Oh God oh God-World enough...No!And time...Henry!
It's hard to be the one who stays. I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash tha...
Everything seems simple until you think about it.
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall spa...
That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I sigh. Henry loves my hair almost as though it were a creatur...
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
He sometimes had nightmares that featured e-mail.
He had never realised, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
A feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word
Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water, standing in the horizon for the tiny ship.
To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate. You name it, I've done it
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
I love. I have loved. I will love.