Megan Power

"But why was monogamy the ultimate trust fall? The standard was prissy, puritanical. Simone, an intellectual, knew that sex was not lov...

  "There's a sameness to the days which accelerates their passing, and a sameness in the pattern of memories that makes them unbear...

  "The smoke caressed his long-chastened palate, the familiar fragrance tickling his nose, overpowering his brain, soothing his ancient...

  "In other words, the tragedy of heterosexuality is about men's control of women, but it also about straight women's and men...

  "We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we go on. We become unrecognizable. We stay more or less the same—small and s...

 "When she has gone, though, he feels something painful and confusing ."

  "Luckily I'm not crazy enough to believe in love ."

  "Our flesh is the debris of dead stars, and this is also true of the apple and its tree, of each hair on the spider's legs, and o...

  "Independence was expensive—or to put it another way, freedom only came at a cost ."

  "Love, when it works, can feel like such a terrifying fluke. Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, thes...