“Sex and laughter. The heart and lungs of a relationship.”

“sex and humor are the heart and lungs of a good relationship”

“Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ”

“You were right. As you know. Other people may sail through lives of blue seas, with only the occasional squall, but for me life has always been a mountain--sheer faced and perilous. And, as I think I told you, I had clung on with the footholds and crampons and safety ropes of a safe job and flat and secure relationship.”

“A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way.”

“There was no harbor for hope.”

“I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.”