"Another thing is that no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close"

"rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism"

"This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate."

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel someday. This is all practice. None of it matters. We're just warming up."

"When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge."

"Hysteria is impossible without an audience."

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody i've ever known."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

" 'Relax,' Brandy says, 'Whatever you're thinking a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, theyre doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is cooperative effort.'"

"You're a product of our language and how our laws are how we believe our god wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out."

"What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want."

"Do the thing that scares you the most."

"Beauty if power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power."

"Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."

"It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and two legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want."

"That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know i'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire."

"There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going."