“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”

“A girl becomes a comma like that, with wrong boy after wrong boy; she becomes a pause, something quick before the real thing.”

“Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.”

“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”

“These memories descend out of nowhere, giving me pieces of who I was, but their significance is lost. I sigh and resume my walk, not knowing if this memory is important, or just more of the jumbled trivia of Jenna's life, like sock shopping. Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one.”

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”