“Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.”

“There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

“Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

“Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

“I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

“How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

“Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.”