I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

You're the father of the person who is my life.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.