“Every journey starts with a small step, every wave a ripple.”

“I want to look at you as you kill me.”

“How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.”

“The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”

“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”

“You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.”

“See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it.”