Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
There can be no great love without exclusivity.
I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.