Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.