I?d love to lock the door and come back when they?re done.

If we close the doors of the store, we lose our homes. We?re really between a rock and a hard place.

Love isn't love if you didn't hurt someone.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Strong.

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.