The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.