People hide the truth because they're afraid.

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.

Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.