I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much