“I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth.”
“Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.”
“I wanted to do it for you,” he said. “I wanted to show you how much I would do,how far I would go. How hard I would work.”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?”
“I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.”