“My Favorite Ring is Always the Next One”

“I could talk food all day. I love good food.”

“When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has lost, the chances he will never have, to return such a touch, to fall of a horse or eat chinese food or shoot a crossbow (which has always been one of his most dear wishes), to receive a letter in the mail, to be kissed with longing or punched in the jaw.”

“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.”

“I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.”

“One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.”

“No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.”