“Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?”

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”

“Nothing makes any sense. Nothing means anything. You're born, you live, you die. That's it.”

“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”

“Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.”

“Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." Shane said."Shut up" Claire said.”

“I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?”