Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.