“No matter how tough you think you are, if you live long enough, eventually you get all squishy.”

“If you walk the dog long enough, you'll eventually be able to get him to poop.”

“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”

“That was the danger of pretending to be someone else all the time. If you do it long enough, eventually you start to become that person.”

“For all these years, you’ve lived under the illusion that, somehow, you made it because you were tough enough to overpower the abuse, the hatred, the hard knocks of life. But really you made it because love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out. Toughness was a faulty coping mechanism you devised to get by. But, in reality, it has been your ability to never give up, to keep seeking love, and your resourcefulness to make that love last long enough to sustain you. That’s what has gotten you by”

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”