“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”

“It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging.”

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.-Jing-mei”

“When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.”