“Still, his apartment has that dreamlike qualityof feeling like home though I know its not. Not mine anymorebut how many people get to visit the past without hurting anything?To come back and drink ...”

“We must love one another whether or not we die.Love cant block a bulletbut it cant be destroyed by one either,and love is, for the most part, what makes Us Usin Orlando and in Brooklyn and in Kabul...”

“and my pack so light Im sure Ive left something behindbut only my worry, and only for a moment.”

“I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and t”

“We must love one another whether or not we die.Love can’t block a bulletbut it can’t be destroyed by one either,and love is, for the most part, what makes Us Us—in Orlando and in Brooklyn and in Ka...”

“and my pack so light I’m sure I’ve left something behind—but only my worry, and only for a moment.”

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leavi...”

“I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.”

“It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.”

“Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.”

“Energy wasted on negative ends.”

“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another...”