"All right, I'll stop," Oliver said, more to humor Tommy than any concern about the Hammonds.
"I can't answer that, Tommy, because you know I've been alone for so long that I couldn't even connect with the people I know I love, let alone strangers. Back home, it took me months to even have sex and, really, the only reason she interested me was because she was as fucked up as I am. She's the one who shot my mother, for Christ's sake. It doesn't get more fucked up than that," he said.
"You're the first person I'm starting to feel comfortable with talking about real things, and even that's hit or miss. If we hadn't ended up in this dimension it might not have happened at all. Actually, I could guarantee it. So if the trade off is being only with them in this or any dimension, I'll take it because it gives me you."