“No one knows how another person feels in private.”

“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”

“The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be?”

“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection.""But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there.”

“How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.”

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”