There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.