Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.