I wanted people to know we were together, but only the ones who wouldn't hurt us for it.

Not wanting him to go was an emotion produced by me, not him. He’d witnessed me having and failing to smother a feeling, and said he’d noticed - and he profited, not me.

I gave her the remote and she chose a channel showing Inglourious Basterds. She said the title was spelled that way because Tarantino had misspelled it in a leaked screenplay and then insisted he’d done it on purpose.

holding Julian’s hand was like holding a museum pass, and holding hers was like holding a grenade

My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience

It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't

The only thing we had in common was DNA, which gave us limited mileage conversationally.