“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”

“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.”

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”

“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”

“It's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it.”

“And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.”