“You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.”
“Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.”
“It's not possible to try too hard Elliott. Truth is, every girl deserves someone who tries hard.”
“His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.”
“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”
“Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . . too hard to say what you feel inside.”