Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.