“Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.”

“Because you've got balls of steel.'I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good t...”

“Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo”

“Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past”

“I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo”

“we should live like we smoke inhale the present and exhale the past.”

“Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade”

“dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”

“[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man...”

“I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.”