I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.