“I needed a whole heart once in my life. Is that so wrong?”
“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
“My whole life I’d fooled myself into thinking I didn’t need his love, but I’d been wrong. Everyone needed their father’s love.”
“Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.”
“I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.”
“I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”