“It's funny how many little things you get used to - attached to, even - and never realize until you travel abroad and those things are not available.”

“That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.”

“Never get attached to possessions…. They’re just things and you can always get more things.”

“The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.”

“It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.”

“It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”