Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.