Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

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.

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.