“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stopyourself from dreaming.”

“there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a differencebecause I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard youtry, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.”

“But there are some kinds of love that you can’t lose, no matter how hard you try. So there’s no need for him to be afraid.”

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”

“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”

“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.”