“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”

“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”

“You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.”

“All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.”

“The grass may be greener on the other side, but you still have to move the lawn.”

“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”

“Gorgeous' you say in English and he likes that word tasting it like wine.”