“Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

“I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.”

“I read in some of it (the reference is to Shakespeare). It’s not so bad when you get used to it, pretty archaic though. Why do you like old stuff like this?”

“Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.”

“Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.”

“Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.”