“Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.”

“You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.”

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.”

“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”

“I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”

“Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.”

“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?”