“You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.”

“You get up every morning then life happens to you. You just have to have the right stuff to get through it.”

“You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.”

“I have loved you all my life, Mal,” I whispered through my tears. “There is no end to our story.”

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

“I don't care who you are, everybody and their Mother has to have a little bit of an ego, or they will chew you up and spit you out. Brian Grohowski”