“And still tears never feel like enough: the rinse something away, but only the surface, not whatever is underneath.”

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.”

“Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.”

“Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”

“You're the one who made it seem like we were doing something wrong. Maybe you still feel like that, because for whatever reason, you think I'm not good enough for you. But I like you, okay? I've liked you from the very beginning.""It was never going anywhere""Because you wouldn't let it go anywhere.”

“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”