“Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.”

“I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me.”

“The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life.”

“You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.”

“I caught her red-handed with her hands down his pants.""You did not," Fancy told Madda sternly, with as much dignity as she was able. "It was just one hand.”

“What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.”

“They can't even decide what flavor of crazy I am.”