“He didn’t wear his heart on his sleeve, exactly, but he did keep it in a place where I could see it.”

“What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”

“A man who wears his heart on his sleeve is a rarity, yet often underappreciated.”

“He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn’t exactly place in a very disturbing way.These were not his memories.”

“It doesn't matter," he said to his sheep. "I know other girls in other places." But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.”