"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."
"I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."
"Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do."
"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
"What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person."
"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."