"You see now how some people make it to midlife and implode. You think the discipline will add up to something but what if it doesn’t. And what if it adds up to the wrong thing. What if one day you have the house and the boy and the baby and the book and you realize it’s no solace in the face of your own mortality...
"There are no more first days of school for you. But inconvenient revelations are a lifelong thing.
"So you’re still learning."
