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.

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

There's always world enough and time.

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.