“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.”

“No matter what happens in your life always try your best to stay in the moment. You can never control another persons emotions but you can always control yours.”

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.”

“Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.”