We're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about... something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out.

More from Young Charlie

• Go away, I'm warning you. Go away or I'll kill you myself. See... that's the way I feel about you.
• He thought the world was a horrible place. He couldn’t have been very happy, ever. He didn’t trust people. Seemed to hate them. He hated the whole world. You know, he said people like us had no idea what the world was really like.
• Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.
• What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes.
• It just seems that you and me have been mad at each other for so long.
• Dad’s voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life.