“Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying ju...”

“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of pigeonholes and drawers and secret compartments. At the start, it's empty, an...”

“Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.”

“Im so sorry, he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, Im so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't bel...”

“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When so...”

“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”

“I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.”

“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”

“My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.”

“To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth”

“Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.”

“Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.”