“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”

“Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.”

“(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.”

“But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.”

“There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see. B...”

“Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.”

“And Im stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.”

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”

“Dear God, Why don't you ever get inspired by those carmakers who recall defective models? Please be humble, accept that you made and mistake and recall all idiots, criminals, haters, terrorists and...”

“Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.”

“Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”