“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”

“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”

“When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it.”

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.”

“The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”

“You will ask yourself How come; you will ask yourself What if.”