“Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy bear.”

“When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge.”

“Indecisiveness is a very unattractive trait in a man, especially when he's just a boy.”

“No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.”

“You need air. You need food. You don't need some beastly boy.”

“If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry”

“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.”