The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.