I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.