“It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.”

“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”

“This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.”

“Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.”

“There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.”

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”