That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove." What is the "freight"? he wondere… - Gabrielle Zevin

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.