“I don't want you to worry about protecting my feelings or your father's or anybody's. When you were little you always tried to make everyone ahppy. Then it was like one day you just exploded.”
“I just wanted to see if... we were okay," she said, feeling relief. "Just to make sure we can be friends. I don't want it to be weird, you know?" Friends? Different parts of Birdie died as she said it. It was like stars exploding and burning one by one. She wondered if this was part of getting older. Parts of your heart exploded and died.”
“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”
“It's always been you. I don't want anybody else; I don't dream about anybody else. It's only you.”