“But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.”
“It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it.”
“There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.”
“That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed certain you might fall behind. Only the solo acts left themselves open to those kinds of disasters.”
“Even after so many years of marriage, there were things she didn't know about her husband's life!”
“But you were something more than young and sweetAnd fair, - and the long year remembers you.”