1. But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.
The Brief History of the Dead
2. The guidance counselor had never married; had hardly even dated. It was better, easier, he had decided, not to disturb anyone with his love or his sadness.
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
3. Time and space, he thought. What a hodgepodge.
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
