“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“It's funny the things people say when someone dies.He's in a better place.How do you know that?Life goes on.That's supposed to comfort me? I'm excruciatingly aware that life goes on. It hurts every damned second. How lovely to know it's going to continue like this. Thank you for reminding me.Time heals.No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue isn't a good thing. It's merely the wound's other face.”

“For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.”

“Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? Youknow, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear apin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in yourears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in thatsuspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and themoment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with yourmouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used tobe?”

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”

“... You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.You have to look with the heart.”