“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing youve got to do is find a way to live there.”

“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”

“You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.”

“Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.”

“He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't,' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.”

“I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”