Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.