“If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.”

“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.”

“The dangerous paradox of living in this age of instant communication is that the act of communication has become something of a virtue. Apparently, because people have the ability to communicate instantly, they have lost the ability to communicate at all.”

“Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.”