“I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, Dont talk. Youll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.”

“Was that you, Pooky Bear?”

“He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.”

“So thats your sister? asks Dee in a quiet voice.Yeah.The one you risked your life for?Yeah.The twins nod politely in that automatic way that people do when they dont want to say something insulting...”

“They always always understimate women”

“The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.”

“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.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”