In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.