“We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia”

“Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”

“Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape. ”

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”

“The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.”

“We'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd give each other everything we could.”

“All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.”