Ash Wednesday

"Something has to mean something even if we have to make it up. Let's make it up; I love you, you love me. Let's stick with it. Let's take it across the goddam goal line. Ok?"

"We spend fifty years together and some shit's gonna go down. But you can't stop fighting. You can't let go. Take your shoes off. Stay awhile."

"Making vows about tomorrow seemed to be uselessly tempting fate. You could make vows of intent, but promising anything further about an unknown variable like the future seemed arrogant."

"If we could just love each other and live in truth as much as possible and not at some idea of what a relationship is supposed to be...To maintain a perspective on the other and not wholly judge him in context to yourself... An awake, conscious life, that's all I really desired."

Centered

"I had this idea that we could be a home for each other, but maybe that's not right. Maybe a person can't do that for someone else. But people need a center...It was too much to ask you to give me that"

"I'd spent all this time and energy over the years searching for a home - and home for me, I was realising, was simply being close to my own ability to love".