“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”

“its amazing how much a determined heart can accomplish.”

“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

“It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.”

“I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy.”

“I tried to live cautiously - or eventually learned to try to live - in a spirit of regret prevention, and I could not see how Bonnie could accomplish such a thing in this situation. Regret - operatic, oceanic, fathomless - seemed to stretch before her in every direction. No matter which path she took, regret would stain her feet and scratch her arms and rain down on her, lightlessly and lifelong. It had already begun.”