“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”

“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.”

“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”

“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...”

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

“To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind”