“...the usual icing period (where the doctor doesn't come right away but leaves you there to freeze in your paper gown while scraping at the files on the outside of your door making you THINK he is going to come in but he doesn't)...”

“[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!”

“Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending.”

“There's a certain kind of rain that falls only in comics, a thick, persistent drizzle, much heavier than normal water, that bounces off whatever it hits, dripping from fedoras, running slowly down windowpanes and reflecting the doom in bad men's hearts. It's called an "eisnershpritz," and it's named after the late Will Eisner, one of the preeminent stylists of twentieth-century comics, who never drew a foreboding scene that couldn't be made a little more foreboding with a nice big downpour.”

“If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade”

“Düşünceler insanı öldürebilir ama düşüncelerimiz uğruna ölmeye değer.”

“Sevdiği adamla evlenmeyi Zaza'ya yasakladılar. Genç kız kederinden sararıpsoldu, tıpkı amansız bir hastalığa yakalanmış gibi öldü bu dert yüzünden. Menenjit dendi. Yirmiyaşında aşktan ölünebileceğini saklamanın bir yolu bu muydu yoksa?”