Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.