“The days wear out the months and the months wear out the years, and a flux of moments, like an unquiet tide, eats at the black coast of futurity.”

“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”

“She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use – afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off.”

“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”

“I’m OK with masks. I tell people, wear a mask. But just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it.”

“But now the route that used to wear out a solid day barely takes two hours.”
At nunc, quae solidum diem terebat, horarum via facta vix duarum.

“One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.”

“If you're meant to be with someone, it will work out. Whether it’s next month or in five years, what’s meant to be will always be.”

“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”

“What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.”