“Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.”

“She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.”

“So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.”

“I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.”

“Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.”

“You want, you want, you want; when you're so lucky to have, to have, to have.”

“Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I?”