“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”

“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

“Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.”

“You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?”

“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say tell the truth, and when you do, they dont believe you. Whats the point?”

“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.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”