Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.