“I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.”
“Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.”
“You owe me nothing, but I want everything.”
“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”