“Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”

“Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing?”

“ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.”

“You have to believe in God to believe in trees.”

“Just because God worked in a certain way in other people's circumstances, it doesn't mean He'll do the same for yours.”