"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
"With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?"
"Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work."
"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."