“As it turns out, we're all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197”
“No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”
“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”
“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”