“I wake up at night with nowehere to go, no promises to keep and no whispers any more.”

“This doesn’t have to be hard, Mr. Carter. Tell me what you did or I promise that you’ll never be able to look at yourself in the mirror again.”

“If wishes were free, pigs would fly.”

“I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.”

“You're going on birth control...or I will smash your truck-Allison Young”

“You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”

“She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.”