Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

by Dani Shapiro

We slid away from one another as easily as two kayaks gliding along the surface of a lake, barely leaving a ripple behind.

The future you’re capable of imagining is already a thing of the past.

I want a stable man in my life. One who will be there, but will give me enough room to be free, to breathe, to live. And one I can love, but not sacrifice my soul for.

There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”

I believe he doesn’t regret it. But still, has being with me stopped him from being him?

But I think that at the moment of my death, I’d like to be looking at those pictures of everyone I have ever loved.”

“And it was so important to realize that I didn’t know what was on the other side of the darkness. Every so often there was a sliver of light that shot the whole world through with mystery and wonder, and reminded me: I didn’t have all the information.”

“Let the young soul look back upon its life and ask itself: what until now have you truly loved, what has raised up your soul, what ruled it and at the same time made it