"Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting."
"I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.And now I will have to be that person forever."
"It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be."
"There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us."
"I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home."
"I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine."