“We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”
“I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.”
“I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget.”
“Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”
“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”
“Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”