“CommunicationWas never big in my house.We sat together overdinner, but the only soundyou'd hear was crunchingand chewing and the littleones asking for more, please.We lived, all boxed up ininvisible containers. Wehardly knew the peoplewe called sister or father.Jackie and I were theexceptions to that rule.”

“I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.”

“PerfectionI've lived with the pretenseof perfection for seventeenyears. Give my room a cursoryinspection, you'd think I have OCD.But it's only habit and notobsession that keeps it all orderly.Of course, I don't want to givethe impression that it's all up to me.”

“The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.”

“You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.”

“With you, I am Adam. And you are my beautiful Eve. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.”

“I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”