“Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.”

“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”

“I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?”

“Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.”

“I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again”

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”

“Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.”