He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned,...
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
The odd feeling comes which you know may not be right but which still inhabits you: I belong below people.
Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.
A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.
Who ever said that one got what one wanted. It was a small thing compared to... well, to a lot of things. She’d gotten over things before none like this she’d left things behind this was more she coul...
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
For a girl, with each boy it’s as though a petal gets plucked each time.
She was pulling a rope out of the water and knew it was coming to the end when the barnacles started to appear and they became more think and clustered. Then it was strangely peaceful and the sound wa...
I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, yo...
Most people when you get up close are not more in focus, but less.
It occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not s...
Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New Yor...
Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.
Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. Peo...
[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
She rolled herself back so she wouldn’t leave anything out. Sometimes time spread out like ink in water but it also had an order and one thing could not come without the other coming first.
So many things in this world were cracked and sad, and still a glowing showed through and moments came when everything was lit and love happened. Every tree stood where it belonged, each bird had perf...
Starkly in an instant she saw herself as she really was-alone in a wood standing among blue shadows with no sounds and the air a sort of black ice. She had no coat. All the people she’d known had forg...
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