"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."
"After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to."
"Too many locks, not enough keys."
"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."
"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."