“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”

“You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’”
He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.”

“You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”

“Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.”

“Love is something like the notion that, despite its suffering, Being is good and you should serve Being.”

“If a concept lacks an essence, nothing will ever be found that completely fits that concept. If you are lacking in the concept of human being, it will immediately expose that you are something individual, something that cannot be expressed by the term human being, thus, in every instance, an individual human being.”

“I've always had a thing about being accused of something when I'm not guilty of it, you know? That goes right back to a primary school thing. It's the thing that scares me the most— being blamed for something that I didn't do… And there's that "If you get accused of something and you get angry, then you must be guilty."”

“That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.”