“Sex is stronger than doors or windows.”

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”

“On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us.”

“Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?”

“The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.”

“Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh.”