“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“He fidgets. Thinks. Observes his fellow passengers. Judges everyone, in the traditional Filipino sport of justifying both personal and shared insecurities.”

“‎"A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about”

“How do such flaws become beautiful in the right person?”

“How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp?”

“Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.”