My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.