“I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.”
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
“It was a nice compromise, something I'd never experienced before in my life. With Cooter I did the compromising, I didnt know what it was like to have a fair dose of what I wanted before I gave in to what someone else wanted.”
“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
“I never thought I wanted to write. Never did I know I can either, until now.”
“I want to know--or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?”