He’s had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn’t.
It was probably good you couldn’t flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn’t want it.
You don’t have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don’t have what you want now, you don’t have what you want. -pg276.
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Do you have any idea how much I’ve loved you?
I killed her once and died for her many times.
Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
You should find him because he loves you.
But I know this. We’re ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
All I could think to do was love her. That’s all a person can do.
Pain is fear, and I’m not afraid.
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day – whatever suits you.
I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.