I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.