“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”

“Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.”

“And with one look, he cracked me open like a safe and stole everything inside.”

“When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change.”

“Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come, toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear.”

“Everything I tried to put back together. Everything I tried to build back up. All of it begins to break apart. Just like that.It cracks and it falls and it shreds into a million fucking pieces and when I open my eyes, it's just me and it's just Chris.”