"To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human." (p331) - Louise Erdrich

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.