A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone.