“It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.”

“But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol...”

“Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.”

“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will ...”

“Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.”

“It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you...”

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”