“I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when his son doesn't come home during a national disaster. The thing is, I'm lucky. I had the bookstore.”

“You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You”

“I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.”

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you.[…]You turn the page and there is nothing.”

“Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn’t love you, it’s not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.”

“There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.”

“But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].”

“Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).”

“The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.”

“And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.”

“What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.”