To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

But how do you ever know that you know a person?

Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.