“I’ll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.”

“And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead....But I wasn't dead now...”

“I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.”

“The world will always have people who have more than they'll ever need and people who need more than they'll ever have.”

“We rested beneath the stars and I counted each one, giving it a reason why I loved you. It was wonderful until I ran out of stars.”

“That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.”

“And like all things, the problems disappeared. The challenges, goals and ambitions melted into folly and the reasons for all things homogenized into us and the enchantment of coffee-flavored kisses on a bright and promising morning became our religion, hope, destiny and dream. And it was beautiful then . . . . in a two room flat in the Alps of a city where love once lived.”