I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

Why is love intensified by absence?