“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”

“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”

“I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.”

“Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”

“This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spokealoud. I should have beenwith him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easyin the past tense.”

“Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.”

“And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.”