“It was not enough.It was too much.It was everything.”
“Cassia doesn't like to sort people. I'm all too good at it and I worry I'll grow to like it too much.It's a talent.[...]And all it takes is a misstep or two for that talent to become a liability instead of an asset.”
“There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters”
“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”
“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”