No One Is Coming to Save Us

Sometimes you fall in a hole and you keep yelling until someone comes to get you, except nobody comes. You start to wonder if anybody's coming. Sometimes they don't.

Children can't see you vulnerable for too long or they tend to never believe anything you say.

Every kid knows it is far better to be bored than lonely.

About his attitude towards his father:

Devon had wanted a story like that to tell his own children someday, to make himself big and unreachable to them, the way the Gods are.

Mothers tell their girls that they are too temperamental, unkind, not easy like boys. They remind them that someone must choose them and they are lucky to be chosen.

Giving up the pain and exclusion and meant also losing years of her life. The trick was cutting out the bad like a tumor, hoping the nasty had not spread into the rest of your thinking.

Everybody was keeping the wrong secrets.

To analyze the way of a cheater is a losing game. They just do. They just will. Only death or the smell of it will stop them.

Every once in a while you get reminded how truly impossible it is to know another person, even if you love that person, even if you live with him for years, for decades. The paradox of love was how you manage to feel it with so little information.

Every child in the world is trying to get away from a dead-end town. Just like this one. Where are they all going to, baby? When they've had enough they go back to the town they left. That's not the same as coming home.