“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

“She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.”

“He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as ifthings are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-butmy kid makes me believe the lie.”

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”