“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day”

“Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.”

“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”

“Elle had gone off in another direction and made him swear to ‘whatever twisted deity he believed in’ that he wasn’t going to follow her. Really made him wonder where the hell she was going.”

“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”

“The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.”