"Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point."
"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."
"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
"We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken."
"I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side."
"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."