“Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false ones. Tap the fragile shell of any beginning and you'll find another nested inside.”

“Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.”

“Young girl, don't cryI'll be right here when your world starts to fallYoung girl, it's alrightYour tears will dry, you'll soon be free to flyWhen you're safe inside your room, you tend to dreamOf a place where nothing's harder than it seemsNo one ever wants or bothers to explainOf the heartache life can bring and what it meansWhen there's no one else, look inside yourselfLike your oldest friend, just trust the voice withinThen you'll find the strength that will guide your wayYou'll learn to begin to trust the voice withinYoung girl, don't hideYou'll never change if you just run awayYoung girl, just hold tightSoon you're gonna see your brighter dayNow in a world where innocence is quickly claimedIt's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraidNo one reaches out a hand for you to holdWhen you look outside, look inside to your soulWhen there's no one else, look inside yourselfLike your oldest friend, just trust the voice withinThen you'll find the strength that will guide your wayIf you will learn to begin to trust the voice withinLife is a journeyIt can take you anywhere you choose to goAs long as you're learningYou'll find all you'll ever need to knowBe strongYou'll break itHold onYou'll make itBe strongJust don't forsake it becauseHold onNo one can tell you what you can't doNo one can stop you, you know that I'm talking to youWhen there's no one else, look inside yourselfLike your oldest friend, just trust the voice withinThen you'll find the strength that will guide your wayYou'll learn to begin to trust the voice withinYoung girl, don't cry, I'll be right hereWhen your world starts to fall”

“Only one who knows himself to be neither wise nor good can begin to be either.”

“When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.”

“I was starting to see that this wasn't just sex, and it wasn't something just working out of my system. Sex was just the fastest route to the deeper possession that I needed. I was falling in love with her, and falling to fast and hard to easily find any footing.”

“You better be ready to finish what you started.”