Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.