I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised..

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into ….

Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with….

It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly..

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing..

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children..

When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days..

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated..

Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, t….

we both smile and we are conspirators..

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed..

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least ex….

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson..

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from scho….

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays..

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he….

He is coming, and I am here..

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger..

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark..

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a p….

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing..