“I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.”
“She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.”
“I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!”
“I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.”
“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”
“So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?”