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

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

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

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.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.