“Keep holding on, stay strong. If the world gives up, just keep fighting.”

“Depression's a mood killer. People crowding you, asking if you're okay. Deperssion; the world's worst thing.”

“When life gives up on you, know that your best friend will always be there.”

“Love.. Can me mean things..”

“Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be.”

“Life is like paper; you can throw it away or, you can make something out of it.”

“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.”

“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”