What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.