“If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.”

“You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.”

“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”

“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

“You can’t think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!”

“And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us.”