“I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a ...”

“Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs on the radio he'd heard years before and hadn't liked much in the first place....”

“The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.”

“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.”

“Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.”

“Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were o...”

“Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.”

“I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!”

“Invalidating a womans life choices by saying things like, Oh, but youll regret it if you dont have kids, or, I didnt think I wanted kids either until I had one, is like me going to an Alcoholics An...”

“no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like ...”

“She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be ma...”

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and al...”