If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

She just dropped it and ran!!

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.