“I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.”

“You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.”

“Librarians are notorious snitchesdont let anybody convince you otherwise.”

“I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case Ill make an exception.”

“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.”

“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.”

“Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.”

“If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses”

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

“A human teenager. One of Gods most misbegotten creatures big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.”