“And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)”

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

“What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.”

“This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.”

“As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will”

“Trouble,” he chuckled. “What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.”

“Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.”

“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”

“You run along the rainbow
And never leave the ground,
Still you don’t know why.”

“So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick)
No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)”