“Come on Pop' I said as best I could 'don't go back now'I felt rotten, watching him go back like that.”

“Standing there. watching her go, I felt lonelier than I have ever been in my life.”

“They go on like that and I can't understand, really I can't, what it's all about, and yet I feel terrible.”

“I looked back towards them, to see if they were watching me, and saw her pulling her arm from his grip. Her eyes were closed and her hair was all over the places and her face was screwed up.”

“I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.”

“I jerked the blankets right back off her, and there she was with her nightdress up around her neck. It was a shock to me that, her starting to look like a woman."[Jimmy about Molly]”

“[in reference to Mothers refusal to go to a party] "I'm past being humiliated by you in public, having to watch your drunken foolishness and everybody looking on”