“Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.”

“That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.”

“I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole.”

“But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.”

“Do you like Rhiannon more than me?" ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, ...”

“No one can save me except myself.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”