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He's trying to be in the moment, trying not to let the moment get all discolored by his fantasies of what the moment ought to be.

Sometimes a crisis is not really a crisis at all - just a new beginning. Because one thing she's learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If you're not afraid of it, then it's not real change.

She'd never put all of herself in just one place. It felt too risky. Because her great and constant fear all these years was that if anyone ever came to know all of her - the real her, the true deep essential Faye - they would not find enough stuff there to love. Hers was not a soul large enough to nourish another.

Understanding is always harder than plain hatred. But it expands your life. You will feel less alone.

If you see people as enemies or obstacles or traps, you will be at constant war with them and with yourself. Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, the you will be constantly delighted, because eventually, if you dig deep enough into anybody, if you really look under the hood of someone's life, you will find something familiar.

This was the price of hope, he realized, this shattering disappointment

The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst

It's like he's experiencing his life at a one-step remove, as if he's not leading his life but rather assessing and appraising a life that weirdly, unfortunately, happens to be his.