“I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.”

“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”

“I had learned how to leave a place behind without leaving a piece of myself along with it, but more important, I had taught myself how to be detached. I never joined teams or clubs, and I doubted my picture appeared in a single yearbook. I was, in a way, a ghost: no one could prove I had ever existed once I physically left a location.”

“You have a funny way of showing how much you don't like me.""I don't like gophers, either, but I wouldn't leave one to suffer. I'd shoot it to put it out of its misery.”

“Once a man I was leaving told me I could go if I would leave my skin behind. I was so young I didn't even know that I was wonderful..”

“I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.”