Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.
When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don't mix.
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
What if?’ has no power against ‘What if not?’ The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.
We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush against each other. That I am still an evangelist in the No...
The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.
The strata of sedimentary rock are like the pages of a book, each with a record of contemporary life written on it. Unfortunately, the record is far from complete.
The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.
The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil?
Stop thinking, she said. The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat.
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
My passion for her showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.