“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”

“Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”

“When you leave a place, it's best to leave.”

“And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?”

“I want to leave a mark.But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world...Leaving feels too good, once you leave.”

“You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.”