He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.