“... this girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught me that message of pain, keep asking for it, for life”
“I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”
“Romance goes like this:Boy gets girl.Boy loses girl.Boy gets girl again.The end.It can't be any other way.”
“Common sense is the enemy of sticky messages, if I already "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I be obsessed about remembering it.”
“A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.”
“This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”