“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head, I’m with you and I love you.”

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”

“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we’re falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.”

“Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.”

“But today, today opens like a wound, and you are there.”