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

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

“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.”

“It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.”

“The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try.”

“What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]”