“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

“Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.”

“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”

“It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.”

“How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world”

“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”

“We learned three things together, that first day of Ethan's humanity: skin warms skin, silver eyes light darkness, and our heartbeats measured time together, so that we knew we were no longer alone.”