“Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?”
“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”
“A cry for help that only Ma and someone else’s apple pie—” because Christ knows Ma can’t bake “—can fix.”
“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means.”
“When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.”