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

“The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.”

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”

“Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.”

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

“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.”