Time is flexible. Survival is simply a matter of making it from a bad hour back to a good hour. What you dream of in your head will always, inevitably, be flawed in its manifestation. 
 Favorite Quotes: 
 You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. 
 She, Laura, likes to imagine (it's one of her most closely held secrets) that she has a touch of brilliance herself, just a hint of it, though she knows most people probably walk around with similar hopeful suspicions curled up like tiny fists inside them, never divulged. 
 She is full of love so strong, so unambiguous, it resembles appetite. 
 Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.