“We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.”

“Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.”

“The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.”

“Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.”

“That's what hell means, perhaps, being compelled not just to live but to relive.”

“Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.”

“We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?”