Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

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

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

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.