Jerry Drook

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“I’m not saying, “Hey, isn’t my life great, isn’t yours rubbish?” Just that I try to spend my days doing as many of the things that I enjoy and hardly any time doing the things I don’t.’ ‘Such as working,’ I said. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘Such as that.”
― Paula Daly, The Mistake I Made

“Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us,” Victoria, the smart one, said. “The good is oft interred with their bones.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap