“Ive always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes”

“You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.”

“Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!”

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”

“Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.”

“I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes”

“I want you to remember that you can’t feel responsible for everything. We’re your parents, and we will figure us out. All you need to do— any of you”— she looks at my brothers—” is be a kid for now...”

“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.”

“We had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. Nobody is responsible for you. You are whole and sole responsible f...”

“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”

“Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.”