“You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent”

“And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.”

“Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.”

“...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.”

“Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.”

“Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that's exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear. For those of you who cannot quite picture a pygmy mouse lemur, imagine a miniature Don Knotts or Steve Buscemi wearing a fur coat.”

“When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".”