“He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.”
“It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil”
“Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.”
“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false.”
“We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.”
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.”