Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Sam’s doctor said to him, “The good news is that the pain is in your head.” But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.