“The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.”
“There it is: the spoken admission that he was hers to lose. As soon as the words leave my mouth, I feel weirdly deflated, as though they've been swollen, balloonlike, in my chest this whole time”
“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke in a thousand different places that you'd never been.”
“A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”