Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.