but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.