“I understand only that a vast void, an emptiness, is needing to be filled. O the things we grasp at.”

“Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.”

“That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.”

“Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.”

“Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons.”

“She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.”

“We are all, I realise, even as I write this, merely moving closer to our deaths. At the end of this sentence I am closer to mine than I was at the beginning. It's relentless. It's a savage thing. And yet for a long time I've carried with me a sense of life opening out. Evidently it's some kind of protective illusion.”