“We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.”

“There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.”

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

“Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.”

“There were so many things Sebastian and I had to work out: we'd both been single for so long that blending our lives together wasn't going to be easy.I'd promised Sebastian we'd find a way. He deserved to be loved for everything he was. And for whatever crazy reason he had, he loved me, too.”

“We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.”