“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”

“That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”