I met a travler from an ancient land.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

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

You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.