“New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we’re watching.”

“We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.”

“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.”

“What happens if one day we’re standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you’re washing and I’m drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?”

“One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.”

“I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.”

“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.”