“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdont because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesnt look like drowning and somepeople...”

“Tell yourself youre dead, the way Matt does, so the past cant hurt you.”

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”

“Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”