“It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.”

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”

“You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.”

“I walk to my car without looking back, and as I drive away, I'm hit with a sudden wave of sadness. But it's a distant kind of sad - like when you look at your Barbies and realize you don't want to play with them anymore, because you're growing up and you've moved on, and in your heart you know it's time to make room for other things.”

“How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you--except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important?”

“The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.”