“we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players”

“You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?""We're in training.”

“when we're married, can we go to the ocean? I've never been”

“Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.”

“Aren't you afraid?''Of what?''Of losing yourself.''That's what I'm hoping for.”

“And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star.”

“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”