5 July 2012 Journal Page

"The idea that you’d have to say ‘goodbye’ to all this—even though it’s infuriating and maddening and frightening and horrible, some of the time—is even more infuriating and maddening and horrible: How do you spend this time without perpetually being so broken-hearted about saying the eventual goodbye? I usually say, in the end, okay, it’s love and it’s work—what else could there possibly be?" Maira Kalman