“You are not living, you are surviving.”
“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.”
“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”
“I should have told you. I guess I...wanted you to know. I wanted you to know what I needed, but maybe you couldn't understand that what I needed was you.""Do you need me?""I can survive without you, but it's only that. Surviving. I want to live.”
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.”
“Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.”