“When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain.”

“I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.”

“How do you know that? (Stryker)I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)”

“The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the pain I felt, the betrayal — I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

“I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything”