“What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?”

“No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.”

“It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.”

“So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.”

“Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”

“So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”