“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

“People were crazy with pain and secrets.”

“He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.”

“Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been...”

“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives....”

“Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt co...”

“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ...”

“But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”

“When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves, he said. Your whole world ceases to exist and youre nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, m...”

“If theres a single lesson that life teaches us, its that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts dont change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart reality is tough, unyield...”

“The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.”

“Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.”