“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”
“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
“Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.”
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
“Young people think they are invincible, that nothing bad will ever happen to them, and then something changes: they fall in love. And the world begins to seem a lot more fragile.”
“I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that this would be as bad as it would ever get.”