They could not have known they were watching the best night of two entire lives.

Chapter 15 — Learning the Steps

We have been married now for forty-two years, which means we have been remarried — to each other, in every way but the paperwork — for two.

I will not tell you it is perfect, because that would insult the work of it.

Hal still goes quiet when he’s overwhelmed; I still read his quiet as a door closing and have to remind myself it isn’t.

We are two stubborn old people with forty years of bad habits, and some days we step on each other still.