"I have always found those times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will - that is the part that's almost unbearable."

“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

“But while I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

“Before or after your stole my best friend? But the real question is if you were using me to get to Martha all along, or if you just took an opportunity when you saw it.”

“Hardly ever did it matter if you brushed your hair before driving to the grocery store, rarely did you work in an office where you cared what more than two or three people thought of you. At Ault, caring about everything was draining, but it was also exhilarating.”

“But then she’d know what she’d probably only suspected- how messed up I really was, how much I’d been misleading them for the last four years.”