“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and so...”

“You want me to lie to you?" said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.”

“You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.”

“For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, t...”

“We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].”

“We dont know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?”

“How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you dont mean, and do that which you planned against?”

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world”

“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”

“Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.”

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”

“I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.”