People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.