“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”

“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”

“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”

“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”

“Marriage is a mystery.”

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”

“All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.”