“That's bullshit. You're being deliberately unpleasant. I suppose you can't help yourself, can you?”

“NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't… you can't want yourself to die!! So… live…”

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

“Sometimes, you just can't help yourself but to learn quickly when being taught by the opposite gender.”

“Caitlin, she'd say, her voice dark and serious. I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.”

“How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. If you can't think of anything else.”

“When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.”

“The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.”

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”