“She knows most of this, to some extent, and she knows she’s depressed, but if knowing the problem was the solution, most patients wouldn’t need us at all.”

“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

“She's… just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.”

“You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.”

“I'm not responsible for my child and who she's become, but I am responsible to her, and she is a wonderful person. I love her. I don't know if you need to know anything else, but that's all I need to know.”

“She was goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction — the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund.”

“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”

“The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t know what it is that’s most important to them, or they know but don’t have the power to go after it. But this girl’s different. She knows what’s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn’t let on what it is. I’m pretty sure it’s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that’s about all I can tell you. She’s like smoke:you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there. That’s a sort of strength, I suppose. But it makes her hard to figure out.”

“I know my equations are true,” she mused aloud. “I need to know if they are fact.”