“No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.”

“I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.”

“We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.”

“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”

“I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

“It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.”

“Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?”

“Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!''A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?”

“I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.”

“Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.”