You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.