“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, Ive been grateful its here, too. I miss my wife. Its easier to miss her at a cemetery, where shes never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the place...”

“Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.”

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”

“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.”

“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesnt cost you much to do it. Id rather apologize for something I didnt really care about, and leave someone on ...”

“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy”

“You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.”

“BE HAPPY YOU CAN HAVE THE RICE,MANY CAN'T AFFORD THE PRICE.I CAN CONTROL MY ANGER,WHAT WILL I DO IN HUNGER ?”

“We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. Were pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.”

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”

“Next to her a calico cat puffed away at a hubble-bubble. Pusss watch cost more than his vest, and his vest cost more than his boots, and his boots cost more than a house. If you stripped him naked ...”

“The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldnt have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.”

“Next to her a calico cat puffed away at a hubble-bubble. Puss’s watch cost more than his vest, and his vest cost more than his boots, and his boots cost more than a house. If you stripped him naked...”