“I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have."He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly.""Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he ...”

“If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.”

“My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.”

“Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower”

“Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?”

“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something...”

“Its for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesnt go away. And ridiculous as it is, I cant shake the persistent, needling feeling that Ive...”

“I tear down Baxter, which loops around the last mile down to Back Cove.And then I stop short. The buildings have fallen away behind me, giving way to ramshackle sheds, sparsely situated on either s...”

“You cant cheat if there are no rules”

“Sorry doesnt mean anything! Not when youre still with him. Its not just that you cheatedits that hes still here, and youre still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I s...”

“Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.”

“Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.”