“You never get mad, she said when their server left the table. Except at me.Thats not true, he said tightly. Torie can get me going.Torie doesnt count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.”

“This is America. Were entitled to our opinions.Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.”

“Chasing after a guy whos not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder itll be.”

“He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”

“You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.”“That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.”“Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a p...”

“This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.”“Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.”

“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”

“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullsh...”

“Sane is boring.”

“No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comfort to know ..." He hesitated, and I reached up to smooth the rumpled hair off his face."To know ...”

“In his arms Ive finally found the place Ive been looking for, where fear cant touch me, where memories cant reach, where the past is forgotten and the present is enough. Where the present is, in fa...”

“Our relationship with the world can only be better when we know ourselves well!”