“He had always been awkward about crossing public space, and could not do it without feeling somehow cheesy and hucksterish, as though he were crossing a makeshift dais in a Legion Hall to accept a diploma from a bogus school of real estate…”

“If you can still see how you could have once loved a person, you are still in love; an extinct love is always wholly incredible.”

~Michael Chabon, “Ocean Avenue,” A Model World