The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.