“For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.”

“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.”

“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried.”

“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:The history of how you felt.”

“I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.”

“Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of a life he had not pursued. And her voice trickled through him, an icicle perpetually melting.”

“There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth”