How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?""We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season, " she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this,

Hiding what you feel inside is like running away from what you are.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.