"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"You can’t fool people into loving you."

"Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it."

"It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die."

"Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't."

"No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way."

"Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."

"I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."

"Make me into anything, but just love me."

"Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."

"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."

"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."

"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."