“And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.”
“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”
“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”