That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves.

“But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's…”

“No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand y…”

“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as so…”

“I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are visible only in the terrible lidles…”