If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.