Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. - Margaret Atwood

I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

Her mother volunteered that the thing about people from another culture was that you could never tell whether they were insane or not because their ways were so different.