“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

“...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.”

“If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.”

“He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to...”

“One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided...”

“Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.”

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”

“Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.”

“Thats life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like its nothing. If you ask me I dont think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thats ...”

“Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings and prayers and all the rest of it. People used words to try to change what they should be changing...”

“Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.”