“Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.”

“Camille brushed by Jem, hardly looking at him, and Will followed, pausing only long enough to mutter "She doesn't smell like anything" to Jem under his breath.
Jem looked alarmed. "You've beenher?”

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

“I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It's impossible not
to remember wild an want it back.”

“I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal”

“I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.”

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"

"It's a distance that can't be measured."

"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”

“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”

“The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner.”