“Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, E...”

“Im never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a we...”

“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You...”

“So she quit working to make sense of things we dont realise it, but its hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened ...”

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

“[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THATS EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]”

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”