“There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.”

“There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside"

-Hanna”

“Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.”

“He looks at you a lot. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.”

“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”

“You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.”

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”

“The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.”

“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

“… such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.”