Books I Like: The Beginner's Goodbye

my favorite lines from this book... 

sometimes the most recent moments can seem so long long ago

people's goodwill wears out. it happens.

I'm no unluckier. I believe that. Or I'm unluckier but no unhappier. That is probably closer to the truth.

oh well: fault. who's to say why we let one person influence us more than another?

It always amazes me how two very disparate people’s genes can melt together so seamlessly in their offspring

My friend Luke told me once that he’d been considering my question about whether the dead ever visit. It was true that I had asked him, back around the time I asked Nate, but this was weeks and weeks later. Apparently he had been deliberating the issue ever since. “I’ve decided,” he said, “that they don’t visit. But I think if you knew them well enough, if you’d listened to them closely enough while they were still alive, you might be able to imagine what they would tell you even now. So the smart thing to do is, pay attention while they’re living. But that’s only my opinion.”