Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

The monster nevers dies.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

The past is obdurate.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.