So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)

Any more than a person who hasn’t had a car door slammed on his fingers knows what that is

She was not going to divorce him, and he had no grounds for divorcing

Whether they are part of home or home is part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having taken away the dog, take away the kitchen—the

good blood and a good disposition. One

New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.

so that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God lead his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing.

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory—meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion—is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be w

people get older they get more alike in character and appearance and could all be leading the same life.

Take all this away and what have you done to him? In the face of a deprivation so great, what is the use of asking him to go on being the boy he was. He might as well start life over again as some other boy instead.