“You can never tie a string to someone's heart to keep them from walking away; you can only love them in their freedom and hope that they choose to stay, hope that they love you back freely in the same way.”

“It’s never been a matter for me to compare really. First hour of the day calls loudest as the last, no matter what the season.” Terrance said, adjusting his already faded Caterpillar cap, anxiously, clomping mud from his father’s old work boots, a glimmer of steel visible from the wear on one toe and the uncharted map of manhood sketched across the young boys face like a scar in the making.”

“I love when you do that,” he whispered. “Do what?” “Exist.”

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”

“There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them.”

“Did you ever think we would be anything other than unbelievable?”

“We're all liars sometimes.”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”