"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."
"Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job."
"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."
"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
"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."