“The things you get excited for the fastest are the things that get boring the fastest. Anything that ever meant a damn took a while.”

“It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.”

“It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.”

“She did not feel anything so boring as beautiful. She felt fierce.”

“Some people, I saw, had drowned right away, and some people were drowning in slow motion, drowning a little bit at a time, and would be drowning for years. And some people, like Mick, had always been drowning, they just didn’t know what to call it until now.”

“I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.”

“Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.”