“Rough as life can be, I know in my bones we are supposed to stick around and play our part. Even if that part is coughing to death from cigarettes, or being blown up young in a house with your moth...”

“There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.”

“[W]eve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.”

“Ive never been one to go to church, but Ive al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.”

“Some trees love an ax, a drunk old-timer mumbled one night at the Tap, back when she still went there, and something in what he said rang true, but when she later remembered what he'd said, she dis...”

“[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”

“Thats love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”