“He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.”

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”

“Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.”

“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see each other's faces.”

“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”