“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)”

“He called and we saw each other from time to time, but thedistance did what it always does - it grew us apart.”

“What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”

“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”

“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.”

“Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.”