Status Updates From Cities I've Never Lived In

“Perhaps the most important thing is to have someone to tell things to.”

“What foolish things do you hope for?”

“The lesson being not that love conquered all or that love was eternal, but that there was no lesson much beyond luck, timing what life gives you or doesn’t.”

“Life never quite works out the way you want, and I’ve never known what to make of it.”

“I felt the suspension you feel when you’re fine, but you’re worried it won’t last, and there’s nothing you can do to make it stay.”

“I had then loved so much that hadn’t loved me back. How was so much inequality possible? Who was loved more than it loved back? Perhaps only children. Perhaps that’s why the death of a parent is so painful.”

“On Sunday mornings, I read the Vows section of the Times carefully, not the simple articles of young people getting married, but about the longer, more tangled relationships, those that had been close to breaking apart. The lesson being not that love conquered all or that love was eternal, but that there was no lesson much beyond luck, timing what life gives you or doesn’t.”