“You can’t help who your parents are or aren’t. My parents aren’t—they don’t exist and have never existed.”
“Aren’t your parents going to freak when they see you?”That rough laugh again. “I’d probably freak if I saw them.”
“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”
“In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.”
“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”
“Safe places exist only where people aren’t.”