So you learn to take comfort in your routines, in your job, in your friends. After a while, you begin to think maybe it’s enough…. Then, one day you realize it isn’t. By then, of course, it’s too late.

Beverly Crusher (from the novel A Time to Heal by David Mack)

Of the body’s six hundred muscles, the hardest to keep in shape is the heart.

Doogie Howser’s Personal Journal, November 17, 1990. (episode “Nautilus for Naught”)

All alone in my room, think of you at a rate that is truly alarming // I keep looping my memories of you in my head, I pretend that you want me // And I fall asleep, and dream of alternate realities // And I put myself at ease by pretending that she still loves me.

“Can’t Stop” by Maroon 5 (from the album It Won’t Be Soon Before Long)