“I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess w...”

“She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.”

“She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.”

“I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.”

“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could...”

“Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”