“Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.”

“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.”

“If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.”

“If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?”

“Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead.”

“If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.”

“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.”

“We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”

“All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.”

“What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.”

“Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.”