“We shone flashlights through our fingers to convince ourselves that we're made of blood.”
“When we carry a safety net made of cash, we allow the one made of community to slip through our fingers.”
“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
“It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.”
“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”
“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”