“That’s the thing about falling. It doesn’t go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well . . . plunge, plummet, pain. Even if you get straight back up, even when you regain your footing, after the fall nothing is ever quite the same.”

“If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.”

“When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.”

“It was funny how normal things seemed to go on even when everything was so messed up. People could still fall in love, even at the end of the world.”

“Nothing looks more lovely than something that’s about to end, and that’s true even if you yourself are going to be the cause of its ending.”

“That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you’ve jumped the edge. Even after you’re dead.”