“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.”

“Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.”

“But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?”

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too. ”

“She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.”

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

“There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.”