“(Serenity couldn’t speak. His smile grew wider.)Take your time. Women do that a lot around me. (Stanley)”

“There's a girl, Dad."He smiled a bit. "A girl.""She kinda hates me, and I kinda...""Love her?""I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?"His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do.”

“Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. Foronce, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should orshouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare mymarriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.”

“I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“It takes some time and a lot of looking around, but you eventually find that your home is a lot more than just the house you live in.”