"You lose the dead as the earth takes them, but the living you still have a say in. And so he said it. And so he lied."
"There was so little to hide from each other by then, their bodies finally scraped clean with each other's gazes."
"If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light? People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots."
"What you see might not always be what you feel. And what you feel may no longer be real. Somewhere inside him the boy believed this law was what turned the planet on its axis."
