I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.