“Everything began with a single breath. A light wind that started a sway, and the sway started a turn, and the turn... The turn started everything.”

“Something's about to end. Or start. I'm not sure. I just know we're not in the middle anymore. It's safer in the middle.”

“Darkness doesn't fall, he thought as he swayed to the radio, it rises up from the bottom of the sea and begins to breathe around us.”

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”

“You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.”

“I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.”

“Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me.”