“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

“If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel.And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule.”

“With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.”

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”