“Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.”

“We who choose to surround ourselveswith lives even more temporary than ourown, live within a fragile circle;easily and often breached.Unable to accept its awful gaps,we would still live no other way.We cherish memory as the onlycertain immortality, never fullyunderstanding the necessary plan.”

“You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is a gap where you can't think of anything to say. It's the opposite of being rational and ordered. The very opposite. It wants to unpick civilized behavior, rationality, and order.”

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.”

“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”