“Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.”

“I know I’m about to do something wrong. It just has to be the right wrong.”

“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”

“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.”

“Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.”