“I know who I am and I like being me. As much as I care about David, I don't want to be with someone who doesn't accept the whole me. ”
“But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.”
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.”
“We can't imagine anything more boring than to live with someone who doesn't care about food or eating or sharing meals.”
“The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.”