We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.