“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdont because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesnt look like drowning and somepeople...”

“Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?”

“Tell yourself youre dead, the way Matt does, so the past cant hurt you.”

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”