“Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.”

“This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.”

“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”

“After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.”

“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.”

“If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.”

“People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run.”