“I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”

“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.”

“...You never forget your first love. It’s the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can’t love you back..”

“I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”

“It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.”

“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.”