Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy. - John Irving

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.