Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.