“Think about what you want out of the situation, not how you feel about it.”

“Marissa Rogers, I will marry you tomorrow if that's what it takes to show you that I'm committed. you say the word and we will go to city hall at nine a.m. and tie the knot with a couple of bums looking on.”

“*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.”

“Trust me, it's the weight of someone else's expectation that's the hardest to lose.”

“She'd spent years trying to explain herself to me (and I to her), but in the end, it had all been for nothing. I could recite her memories, but I could not feel them. She was another country, and I would never travel there.”

“How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.”

“—Buenos días. ¿Interrumpo algo? —saludó la abogada.—Joder... —murmuró entre dientes Thomas—. No me lo puedo creer.—¿Has venido sola? —preguntó Olivia, saludándola con dos besos.—No, Max está abajo renegando y aparcando.—Oh, ¿de verdad? ¿Y va a subir? Lo digo porque me encantaría conocerlo y que me firmara un autógrafo y que...—Creo que alguien se está poniendo celoso...—Pongámonos a trabajar —dijo el novio celoso.—No te pongas así, pichurri —canturreó Olivia para molestarlo.—Empecemos, por favor —insistió Thomas señalando los asientos.”