The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.’

He wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.

Your generation don’t want to study a subject, you just want to study yourselves.’

you’re constantly presented with alternatives, you can never make up your mind, Jim thought.

can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to … be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowni

We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of ‘Don’t Forget!’s and ‘Remember!’s over us.

Then she thought about an American author who had written that loneliness is like starvation, you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

An evil little creature that wouldn’t have shown up on any X-rays was living in her chest, rushing through her blood and filling her head with whispers, saying she wasn’t good enough, that she was weak and ugly and would never be anything but broken.

Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours.