“Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.”

“I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.”

“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know know that things will not be the same as at home. Explorers are prepared. But for us, who travel to cities of the interior by chance, there is no preparation. We who are fluent find life is a foreign language. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back worse.”

“…it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.”

“Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.”

“Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.”