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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.-ASG

The next day, I made my last atonement.-ASG

It was as if part of the body was stirring, moving very slowly to rouse the rest. Some change was coming; I was part of it. The way we lived would not do, would not hold.-ASG

But I have signed their names to this story. I have signed all of our names. How else will we be remembered? -ASG

The memory of that day. I wear it like a string of pearls. -ASG

What is the smallest atom of a wife that cannot be split apart? Only you could say, Ethel and you died silent. -ASG

America, you give a lovely death. That same summer, Ethel Rosenberg was electrocuted. -ASG

Everywhere the Stars struggled to show themselves. -ASG

"You have to prepare. If you know what you want, you can have it, but you have to let go of your old life and of Holland-" -ASG

I awoke, alone, in a dandelion heaven. My heart was beating rapidly; I let out a plaintiff sob. -ASG

Marriage is a fairy tale, and, like those stories, it requires a bewitching bargain. It is to trade the thing you value most. -ASG

It's as if you were the first sign of life, the beauty after a long, long winter. Does love always form, like a pearl, around these hardened bits of life?
-ASG

So late in life, she had not expected this particular tragedy. -ASG

To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in bridge for the possibility of better, later. But it is harsher than anyone could realize: a hot invisible fire, burning pieces of hope and fantasy, and charred of the past. -ASG

I had merely thought of it as a marriage, the secret pains and wires we use to keep up the pleasantest illusion on earth, and the ways in which I had won and kept him, though carefully done, had come to seem as artless as any romance. -ASG

Who could leave until the last moment, and even beyond that, when he might still turn around and reach for her? Who wouldn't wait for change long after change is possible? -ASG

There is no good explanation for why love compels this of us: that we must seek out and witness the very scenes that would destroy us.-ASG

And yet none of it was real; after Buzz's declaration, our movements felt like those of mechanical people once a penny is dropped in the slot are better: figures from a dream. -ASG

"Hold me close," Ethel wrote to her husband and Sing Sing, "my heart is heavy with wanting you." -ASG

I did not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain. -ASG

And my mother's day they called it a "tunnel of love." -ASG

A man in the hospital, a girl in the neighborhood - it was the same struggle. A ghost breaking dishes so someone will know he's there. I had not saved him; I had only mast the pain like morphine. -ASG

A man could not be all things; none of us could be. -ASG

We wives are such territorial creatures. Not just where our husbands and sons and houses are concerned, but over the painful past. -ASG

Perhaps he never left that sea. -ASG

I loved you like a field on fire. -ASG

I memorized each corner of your room. Of course I did; I was a girl in love. That lariat that hung beside the window like a snake; your metal bed, painted a sanitary white, sagging like a prison caught semicolon the shadowless statue of a horse back Indian semicolon copper - rivet jacket that I borrowed one cool afternoon. And I memorized your face in the dim light, your smile glowing when I entered. -ASG

You're beautiful face, you're frightened hand. -ASG

Life could be exchanged; could be better, what you dreamed of; could be built on a cliff above the roaring world. -ASG

Life could be exchanged; could be better, what you dreamed of; could be built on a cliff above the roaring world. -ASG