“Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.”

“I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.”

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”

“I'd neglected everyone just to spend more time with someone I shouldn't have been spending time with.”

“I'd breathe for her. I'd see for her, hear for her, and feel for her. I'd even die for her. Thousands of times. If I could see her smile at me one more time, it would all be worth it. Just one more time. Before I completely fell apart.”

“And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been moments in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant.”