“world is a drama, we are the actors with our play role”

“He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.”

“People are divided into two camps, the righteous and the unrighteous...the righteous do the dividing.”

“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.”

“I wanted to hold you until I heard one voice. I stood without intention of moving and realized we see every punch coming in a boxing movie but in real life we miss a lot of them.”

“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.”

“This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.”