“That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.”

“I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.”

“I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”

“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.”

“I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.”

“Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?”

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”