Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.