“The autopsy took place in the morning and was the best argument for the buddy systemI had ever seen. Never live alone, I told myself. Before you chane a lightbulb, call someone from the other room and have him watch until you are finished.”
“Conor, haven't you ever seen a firefly before?""Not like that. That's a flyine sixty-watt lightbulb.”
“Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did.”
“We have found you and we love you. You will never be alone. I will sing to you of morning, I will stay until it's light. I will sing to you of laughter on the other side of night.”
“I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me”
“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”