“It made no sense, but I always wanted to create a home, even in the most unlikely places.”

“So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...”

“You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.”

“After my mother died, I had a feeling that was not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.”

“A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.”

“Chemistry could sparkle in z most surprising places and between z most unlikely people.”