My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)