That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.