“Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.”

“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”

“Life is just one long day separated into sections by sleep. Life never stops happening until you are dead. So whatever happens-love, grief, hate, shame- never disappears. It just gets easier to live with. It just scabs over, waiting for something else significant to happen.”

“You're going to have to make your own fortune. You've been given a lot of challenge. No one is going to help you or save you. You're going to have to do it yourself.”

“Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.”

“All of life is a near-death experience.”

“They don't know, Mem thinks, how temporary they really are.”