“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

“I couldn't help but think of my mother's most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man she barely knew, then producing me a year later. She'd always promised me that she had no regrets, that I was the best gift hr life had ever given her.”

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

“It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.'I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.”

“And then I met one whose face I couldn't forget. I fell in love with her and was afraid she was going to leave me the way everyone else had... I still love her.”