The romantic element is what the story Essential Maps for the Lost, sort of sits on, but all the stuff below the surface is really about family. It's about the baggage we bring, both the good and the hard stuff in that baggage. It's more about the other relationships. It's about mothers and fathers and sisters and dogs, all of the pieces. It's really more about - yes, love, in its widest usage.

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.