“It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.”

“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.”

“As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t. ”

“My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...The reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.”

“Happiness and success are not something that we can attain or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about during the very process of reaching them.”