“Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!”

“Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.”

“(She grabbed him for a bear hug.)
Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)”

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”

“What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.”

“Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.”

“Hold back the river
Let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river
So I can stop for a minute and see where you hide
Hold back the river, hold back”

“This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.”

“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”

“There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.”