“...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.”

“When you lose your best friend it's not always because they go somewhere, like Noah's best friend did. Sometimes you're the one who goes somewhere. What if you go somewhere and you don't know it? How do you make it better when you went somewhere and you didn't know it then, but you do now?”

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”

“One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. ”

“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.”

“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”