“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”
“We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace.”
“With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails.”
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward”
“We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”