“We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.”

“. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.”

“Julia, i've missed you. Please don't make me wait to make love to you. I can't stand it.”

“I wish you'd tell me when we're having friends over for luncheon.""I would, if they would tell me.”

“Touch me and tell me you don't believe we're meant to be together. Tell me you aren't mine."~Ethan”

“These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?”