“You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.”

“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”

“Seize the wind," I whispered. "Don't become the kite that never flies.”

“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.”

“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.”

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”

“I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.”

“Well, sometimes home is a person.”