“My relationship with Jackson had felt fated. Whatever I had with Aric felt . . . endless.”

“But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.”

“You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson… Michael Jordan, I'm sorry. … I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.”

“My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.”

“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”

“Relationships involve the inevitability of rupture. The degree of security and joy felt within a relationship is about our capacity to create repair.”

“In those days I could hate Adam Scott very easily. I was, I suppose, very jealous of him having a relationship with and the attention of my mother. I sometimes felt that we, the Nilsen kids, were an impediment to her fulfillment in her new life and family. I was a very lonely and turbulent child. I inhabited my own secret world full of ideal and imaginary friends. Nature had mismatched me from the flock.”

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

“Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.”

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”