“I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.”

“I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing ...”

“I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.”

“Do you want me to lick you again?”

“Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.”

“Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.”

“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

“At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lo...”

“I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldnt hear, said, When you came down the stairs, and fell into me, that was the moment. Then his lips p...”

“Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”