...there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love. - John Irving

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap — I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you — because you know how to perform them — have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice — and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth — the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives