I'll never disgrace myself. And I swear$$$ it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger$$$ a stranger who's a friend.

It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat

The feeble-minded$$$ the neurotic$$$ the criminal$$$ perhaps$$$ also$$$ the artist$$$ have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

I have to win this now$$$ and for all time$$$ or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

People will always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell$$$ maybe they can.

I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience$$$ that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was at last a grown-up person$$$ emptied of resentment$$$ vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself$$$ in other words$$$ an adult.

I had been right$$$ I was still right$$$ I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world$$$ it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.