My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any situation.

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

We have seen better days.