“He can’t live with know­ing the fu­ture and not be­ing able to save any­one.”

“This is be­ing loved with­out the risk of lov­ing any­one in re­turn.”

“He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.”

“Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-​look­ing.”

“You re­al­ize that our mis­trust of the fu­ture makes it hard to give up the past.”

“There’s a ter­ri­ble dark joy when the on­ly per­son who knows all your se­crets is fi­nal­ly dead. Your par­ents. Your doc­tor. Your ther­apist. Your case­work­er. The sun’s out­side the bath­room win­dow try­ing to show us we’re all be­ing stupid. All you have to do is look around.”

“He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.”