Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.