“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.”

“That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.”

“...You never forget your first love. It’s the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can’t love you back..”

“Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.”

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

“You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”