Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.