“The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.”

“If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?”

“It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”

“Was I disappointed when you said good-bye to me? Not much. It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”

“Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.”

“I waited a second. Should I?No... but I will.”

“It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”