“Why isn't everybody the way they were at first? I wonder.”

“[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”

“It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?”

“There is no hiding the fact that in some ways I am dissatisfied with God.”

“Like that time I came home and Mum was sick, not letting me upstairs. Later on I heard Dad actually blaming her for being sick. That must have been the first time I felt queer.”

“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.”

“And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.”