“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

“This is where we come," he said. Albie and I look at each other. We?Me and, you know.Albies eyes got wide. I really dont think I want to know about this. I surprised myself. I do, I said. I guess I...”

“The hole in my heart, I cant even begin to describe. Its hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly theyre not in it anymore. It doesnt matter whose fault it is; that empty ...”

“Why cant I just be bad? I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about.Well, thats easy, sweetie. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it ...”

“Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and its no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.”

“Then I wondered if that was what this was, like a Brokeback Mountain thing. Wed sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally wed do it, but wed never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get ma...”

“My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different...”

“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”

“We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.”

“Persistent problems, however unpleasant they may seem, contain the unprocessed and unexamined thoughts and feelings that, if left alone, keep you from your greatness. Thats why the pain, emptiness,...”

“Life is not about running away from your problems. It is about facing the problem, fixing it and then keep going until you stumble to another problem. The most important thing is never stopping.”

“Does not heed to the darkWith its shimmering light,Moon quietly bathes the ocean”