“The way I see it, you have two options. Run, run like hell, or dive in”

“I was hard-wired to run when I cared too much”

“Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He’d been there.”

“I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble halved but things like love and joy are multiplied when you have someone to share them with.”

“I was the sum of two people, one dead, the other unknown.”

“I know that this is as close as I'll ever get. He's broken in ways I'm not.”

“They all count, even the wrong turns; they all add more to who you become. Nobody wants to be a one-way street. There are signposts if you cared to look.”