“You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It's like God's little sprinkler.”

“There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.”

“Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.”

“Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.”

“This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except theres only one trailer before the movie. And the movie wont ever end.”

“It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a s...”

“Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.”

“So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under ...”