People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.