“Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?”

“You cannot block someone from your life who doesn't want to be blocked.”

“I only want what's mine. And if I can't have what's mine, I'll take what's yours.”

“In the end it's the pain of being replaceable that turns out to be the hardest to bear.”

“In the end though, if I've learned anything form this at all, it's that life goes on, and we must move on too.Separately.”

“I have to tell you I think you've substantially set back your progress," she told me, and though it sounds stupid, I felt tears pricking at the back of my eyes when she said that. I hadn't been aware I'd made any progress, and now I'd gone and set it back.”

“t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was melting. Let the smell of salt remind you of a paper basket of fried clams you ate once, squeezing them with lemon as you walked on a boardwalk. Let it reach your deeper interest. When you smell the sea, and remember the basket of hot fried clams, and the sound of skee-balls knocking against each other, let it help you love what food can do, which is to tie this moment to that one. Then something about the wind off the sea will have settled in your mind, and carried the fried clams and squeeze of a lemon with it.”