“I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it.”

“But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?”

“and at first i didn't really know jed wasalthough i was sure he knew that i wasbut gradually we both knewand we knew.”

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”

“It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.”