“Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodie...”

“Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.”

“I did have a friend,' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.”

“There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,”

“He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.”

“Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?”

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our ...”

“The absence of criticism is not Appreciation!!!”

“Of course Ill hurt you. Of course youll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become pres...”

“Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodie...”

“Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.”

“I did have a friend,' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.”

“A lot we have in our head,But things of heart are not yet dead,They have done none, but just fled,Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled..”

“A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, she said. Its often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.”

“The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in Gods mind, then what chance of it remaining in t...”