“I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.”
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.”
“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.”
“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. ”
“Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.”