It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

“Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level b…”

“In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just tha…”

“It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.”

“Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we mi…”