“You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)”

“...Loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment.”

“...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)”

“...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)”

“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”

“That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)”

“Relationships are never chance events.”