“Enjoy the mountains; they have beauty and wisdom for us if we approach them with humility, respect, and knowledge.”

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”

“what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five''or what?' I say.'what, what' she says.I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?'She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.'She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.”

“Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.”

“Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.”

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.”

“I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”