“If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.”
“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”
“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”
“If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.”
“You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality.”
“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”