“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”

“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”

“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.”

“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”

“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”