“I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.”

“Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.”

“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.”

“But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.”

“You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.”

“Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.”

“I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.”