“it's an even bargain -one in which we both lose.”
“A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”
“Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories”
“One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.”
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We are ourselves story, just as we are language. That is the nature of both narrative and love.”
“We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.”