“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

“Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you”

“It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.”

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

“I think marriage does give a sense of oneness that just being together can’t.”

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”

“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”