“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”

“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”

“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”

“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”

“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”

“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”

“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”