“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”