“Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.”

“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

“I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin”

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”

“I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.”

“We can do the innuendo,
We can dance and sing
And when it's said and done
We haven't told you a thing,
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.”

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

“If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be?

She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, He'd smiled faintly. he'd thought but not said.”

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

“With adolescence, Pryn had certainly taken on the sometimes troubling knowledge that almost anything with an outside and an inside supporting movement from one to the other could be sexually suggestive.”