“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”
“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
“Live with no regrets, dream not despair, and once in a while, love without a care.”
“She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked.”
“He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.”
“in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.”