“Rage cools fast without an accessible target.”

“Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?”

“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”

“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”

“You have not truly met someone until you have looked him or her in the eye as a soul with a place in your future.”

“Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens -- but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.”

“Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?-I See You Everywhere”