“This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”

“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”

“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.”

“We want what you no longer want.”

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”

“If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.”