Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.