“Comfort is a well-wornpair of shoesseconds before thestrap breaks”

“Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.”

“Imagine this:Ice is coming to YOUR house.Can you HEAR it knocking?Are you ready?What will YOU do?”

“Leftie loosely is the way to relax a set old screwas rightie tightly thinksnew bullshit to pursue”

“If practice makes you perfectshouldn't good behavior be addedto the curriculum”

“Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?”

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”