“I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.”

“Oh, hell." He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. "This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce, isn't it? Too many villains, and nothing to tie them up with.”

“I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....”

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure isthat you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to followthrough on some things.”

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.”