“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”
“Only the rock lasts forever”
“That I love her, that I want her, that I'm never going anywhere, that she and I are going to last. That this is real. That it’s forever.”
“I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley”
“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”
“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn, and now it's time to grow up.”