“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

“What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

“And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s myvoice this time and it’s asking a question: How does sheknow?”

“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.”

“It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.”

“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”

“ve never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.”