Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.