“He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.”
“I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.”
“He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.”
“Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden.”
“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”
“I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.”