They passed a closed police station. Someone had written on the wall, “It is forbidden to forbid.” - Lisa Goldstein

We are all tourists in each others’ lives. We all have monuments and ruins, places of strange beauty and forbidden sites chained off and locked securely so that no visitors can get in. And none of us has the guidebook to anyone else, or even the list of most commonly used phrases. We just have to get along the best we can.

I’ve got to live up to their expectations by acting irresponsibly again.

I can't believe this," Mary said, whispering urgently. "Every time I talk to you I think I've heard the worst, and then you come along and say something even stupider.