What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

You get to define the terms of your life.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

And every last one of us can do better than give up.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.