“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 can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.”

“I've got a lot of ideas about God. I pray about as much as anybody, even though i am tough , yet I'm not too sure I liked God. It seems to me that is he is what they say he is, he has a very funny way of showing it.”

“I made up my mind to tell Joe about what was going on at home after the funny business about Molly's letter. As I went to sleep I imagined myself telling Joe even about the the funny marble feeling that came over me from time to time. Then I remembered a lot of the whopping lies I had told Joe about my mother and father.”

“Molly wasn't hope then, of course, and i can't help hating her for not being there.”

“Yet I didn't much want to go home.”

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