"you're not a bad person."
"what the hell did you say?"
"i said you are not a bad person. you just pick bad friends. you pick people who are worse than you, because you think that's all you deserve. you ought to pick people who are better than you."
"i think my mom was very like me at first, because she was a romantic when she was young. but there's no harder person on the planet then a romantic with a broken heart."
"come! next station!"
"we'll never make it on time."
"no, no, of course, never make it. what you think i am? a moon rocket?"
"then what's the point in even trying?"
"next station: lost and found. maybe someone leave what you lost there?"
"i doubt it, it's very valuable."
"maybe people surprise you? what to do without hope? eh? come on, i drive you!"
human beings are capable of such unbelievable stupidity. we speak of the birth of a child as a miracle, but really the miracle is everything that comes after.
what was it louisa said on the train? that sometimes you don't want to hear the end of a story because when you find out who survives, you know that all other characters in it might die?