“He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became. ”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.”

“It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right....”

“Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.”

“Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.”