“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

“So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.Lena Kaligaris”

“This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.-Carmen's grandmother”

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.'After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.”