“And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.”

“I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.”

“College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun.”

“..."Theres really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum," I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesnt score many points," he agreed.*”

“You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.”

“..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum," I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesn’t score many points," he agreed.*”

“And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit”

“Your most important fights will be the ones you knew that you couldn't win but you fought as hard as you could.”

“Okay,' she said. And that was that. The shortest fight we'd ever had.”

“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.”