“I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.”

“Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.”

“Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and sleeps when he rises to face this life,and that together they are only one man sharing a heart that always labours, hands yellowed and cracked, a mouth that gasps for breath and asks, Am I gonna make it?”

“I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. ”

“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.”

“You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.”

“Sarah, honey, I cannot undo what was done. None of it. But I can promise you that your life with me will not be one of pain. I will put your happiness before my own. I will share my world with you. I will make amends with my family so that you have a family. I live for the day that I see joy in your eyes.”