"Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that’s what being in love is all about."
"I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory."
"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."
"An exercise in unknowing is not the same as not knowing or forgetting."
"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."
"With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me."