“Just remember: the heart! Start there, and you can't go wrong.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

“Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up....”

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. ”

“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”