“Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing everything else.”

“When everything else is boring, there's something to be said for risk.”

“There's no reason to think things are going to change just because the calender does...”

“I felt very much apart of something and very much alone.”

“I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.”

“I realized then how much alike we were. Both of us looked backwards to a beloved time that was lost to us, a time where everything had been beautiful. Both of us looked forward to some time and place that would be better. And both of us were here, now, in a grim, unhappy time where little was as we wanted it to be. We lived in our memories and in our hopes, enduring the present because we had no other choice, and because we loved the people who lived here with us.”

“Maybe when we recognize the trivial for what it is, we can concentrate on what we love most, what we most treasure.”