Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.