“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the chances of life.”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”

“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”

“Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into."It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found―and then lost―so many things in Paris.”

“If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides. ”

“Hell had many interpretations. Syn knew that better than anyone. In his life, he’d managed to live through most of the common variations and discover a multitude of new ones. Why was it every time he thought he had life tamed, the treacherous beast turned around and bit him on the ass?' (Syn)”