"But while I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts."

“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

“Before or after your stole my best friend? But the real question is if you were using me to get to Martha all along, or if you just took an opportunity when you saw it.”

“Hardly ever did it matter if you brushed your hair before driving to the grocery store, rarely did you work in an office where you cared what more than two or three people thought of you. At Ault, caring about everything was draining, but it was also exhilarating.”

“But then she’d know what she’d probably only suspected- how messed up I really was, how much I’d been misleading them for the last four years.”

“For the whole movie, I had that sense of heightened awareness that is like discomfort but is not discomfort exactly -- a tiring, enjoyable vigilance. I did not get a grasp on the movie's plot, or the names of any of the characters. Then it was over and the lights came on… Maybe this was the place Cross and I would part ways, I thought. And maybe we wouldn't even say good-bye, now that he was with his friends again; maybe I was just supposed to know.”