“I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don’t want to know.”

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“Before you tripped right into my life I would have said the same thing. But there’s something different about you. I don’t know what it is, but it wants to make me change every bad thing about myself.”

“It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.”

“The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.”

“I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don’t have to turn you stupid. That’s a choice, like wearing green stretch pants.”