“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”

“The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act.But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.”

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”

“Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up with the notion that I always had to be number one. Family heritage, don't you know?”

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”

“Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.”