“Zoe : “I love him so much. How did I not realize this before, the way love grows over time,over experiences?”

“I stopped talking to people long before I'd figured out how to.”

“Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.”

“Love and hate are practically the same thing.”

“Our love like this, grown while we committed crimes—it's going to destroy us.”

“He wanted to keep things in, and all I wanted to do was get out.”

“So there I was eating haute cuisine in a mobile home. He cooked for me as seduction, a courtship, so that I'd never again be impressed with a man who simply took me out to dinner. And I fell in love with him over a deer's liver.”