I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

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.

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

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.