Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued …”

“I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure, and for not…”

“On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...Thi…”

“What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.”