“I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use ...”

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”

“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”

“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”

“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.”

“Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”

“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?”