“How well can we really know another person? Peolpe can be in your lives for years - they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.”

“No matter how much you think you know a person—no matter how pretty they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.”

“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”

“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”