How come people don't do things like that nowadays? You grope around in the back of a sedan in high school and you think you're in love. Nobody gets swept off their feet anymore.

“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your chi…”

“Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worr…”

“Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can'…”

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that lo…”