“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“I start to count. This is the important part. I have to count right. Not too fast, nor too slow. All the way to one hundred. It must be spoken aloud, without interruption. Whispering is acceptable;...”

“I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe.”

“The Goth boy stares at me, and I give him a what-are-you-looking-at stare right back. Im dead, he says in a dull monotone. Pardon me? Adriana asks, but he keeps staring at me. Youre dead, too. Look...”