“The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.”

“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”

“When everything in life is made to be broken----promises, dreams and hearts, all of them--it's the memories of perfect moments that get us through.”

“When you lived a certain kind of life, pushed along by good colleges and internships and jobs and a shared, tranquil neighborhood and a world of privilege in which your child overlapped, you were inevitably part of a long chain of connections. All of them could help one another; the possibilities were there if they wanted them, though many of them didn't seem to want them anymore, or maybe they had somehow forgotten they had once wanted them.”

“Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.”

“What is a sentence. A sentence is left to be alright and therefor (sic) they are barely here.A day is additional with there having been with a condition of remaining all day which it is partly that they like to look about made it for them in reference as they knew that is whenever they met by the arrangement which had been made for them in the mean time. What is a sentence. They need not be having them made by them.in 'Sentences' chapter, p. 175 my edition, How to Write.”