“Down Through the Valley""When Jane left me for Barry Kramer, it was a heavy kind of hurt, but by the time she took up with him, there wasn't a whole lot left for us. For quite a while, we'd been nothing but an argument looking for different ways to happen.”

“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”

“when he finally tried to kissed me after all this time, i denied him. he took too long, and she left him.”

“Neither of them noticed Jane for a moment, which was for the best, as Jane looked like parts of her had been ripped up and flung into the wind.While Hunter smiled at Savannah, little pieces of Jane fluttered down to the parking lot. ...She waded through the litter of her old self and climbed into the battered Taurus.”

“There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.”

“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.”