How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

...God leads you to it and takes you through it.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.