“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won'...”

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”

“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.”