““What remains of a couple when it’s gone? A small collection of souvenirs: phrases, images, sensations. These fragments persist long afterward, as vivid as they are completely and radiantly meaningless, as if they were signs that will one day reveal their secrets. Sometimes the fragments include a child or two, and sometimes those children grow up and have to be what they are. But although the couple is the primary image of love, the couple is not all that love is, and so these fragments are not signs””
