“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

“That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .”

“That may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have to think.”

“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.”

“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”

“It‘s complicated. I think when bad things happen—whether someone dies or people argue or split up—you get to a point where it‘s just too hard to go back. There‘s so much lost. So many versions of the truth. So many versions of how things might‘ve turned out differently. We all long for what could have been. For some people, it‘s just easier to move forward and try to forget.”