30 Quotes About The-answers

I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

I think back to this moment sometimes now, look back at that person I was, months before I couldn't unknow what had happened.

I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on a stranger, hoping that whatever that stranger might do to her would be the thing she needed done to her.

I thought that if I could ever do a background check on myself, I knew exactly what I'd do with it. I wouldn't even read it, just take it somewhere sacred and set it on fire.

Will your dad beat me up if I ask for your number?She wrote it down, smiling, feeling somehow significant and uncomfortable, a nervousness that stiffened her face.

This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.

. . . overcast afternoons when it seemed possible the whole world had run out of things to say.

And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.