“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”

“...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...”

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.”

“You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.”

“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”

“Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.”