1. “Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
2. “Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.”
3. “The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
4. “We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.”
5. “People who become use to saying little become use to feeling little.”
6. “It is my great hope that our paths however long and winding, will cross again.”
7. “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”
8. “It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn’t know inside me”
9. “Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they all on fire, and we’re all trapped.”
10. “Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.”
11. “I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
12. “Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.”
13. “Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
14. “Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.”
15. “Only humans can cry tears.”
16. “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
17. “There is nothing wrng with not understanding yourself.”
18. “We spent our lives making livings.”
19. “Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.”
20. “Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
21. “The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
22. “I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
23. “It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.”
24. “My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.”
25. “Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are smarter than their parents.”
26. “The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.”
27. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
28. “It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.”
29. “Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.”
30. “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
