...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

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

Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.