“I opened my mouth to ask him what our excursion meant to him. Then I wondered if I really wanted to know, because once you have knowledge, there's no going back.”

“I want to be the last thing you see when I go to sleep and the first thing I see when I wake up. I want to sit with you in the sun, on the floor, and anywhere else, just to be close to you. I want it all.”

“I don't think I want to have this sort of conversation with you, especially since you're going to be a virgin till you're thirty-five."Anna grinned. "I won't tell you about Hans and Boris during spring break then.""You hung out on my couch during spring break.""So did Hans and Boris."- Perfect For You”

“I finally realized that what I wanted didn't exist where I thought it did.”

“What good are prisoners? I much prefer devoted slaves.”

“It's what surprised him most -- not the overpowering love all the books required that he feel for his child -- just that he simply liked being around him. And even with the diagnoisis, or even since, there's something a little joyous, alongside all the disaster, about living with Hendrick. Some feeling he gets about being in better or closer contact with the things we need, the things we want. I want to run the controls on the dump truck. I want to touch the faucet. I want to open the drawer three hundred times in a row. Because who doesn't want that from time to time? To fall deeper in? Who doesn't do it? Some mornings Jack taps his own spoon a few extra times on the rim of the cereal bowl just for the sheer pleasure of it, and then he'll wonder what the space really is, after all, between tic and illness.”

“I had been so worried about him not wanting me that I hadn't stopped to know if I really wanted him--if he was right for me.”