The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.