That lasting things do, in fact, last.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving