"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. "
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

"...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal."
— Douglas Coupland