"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
"Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!"
"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."
"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."