“I have too much doubt. Its the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesnt outweigh it. They coexist.”

“I dont want to be my limitations. I dont want to be my pain. I dont want to be my embarrassment.”

“the person youve always wanted to be. Some days your heart will be in it, and some days youll fake it, but eventually it will become a habit and without thinking about it, you will be changed anew....”

“Sometimes Im irrational, I know I am, but even irrational thought feels very, very real when youre in the middle of shit.”

“Genetics doesnt ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You dont give them your time, and you dont show them effort”

“Because thats what parents do, without even thinking about it, thats what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when theyre adults no...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”