“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.”

“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.”

“You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.”

“When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?”

“Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don’t have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.”