“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
“Shit,” he said, panting and frustrated. “I got rid of them.”“What? All of them?” I breathed.“I thought you didn’t…if I wasn’t with you, I wasn’t going to need them.”
“I wonder if I loved him because I thought no one like you would ever come along.”
“[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”
“Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future,”