“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”

“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”

“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”

“Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.”

“To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain”

“All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day.-FitzMost prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.-ChadeWhen you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.-BurrichWe left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life.-Fitz”