“You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.”

“If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel.And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule.”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.”