“Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.”

“Kill the guard real dead for me," Matt said when Grayson made a move toward the door, "and pick up Chinese food".”

“Flirting with love can do that." Vega wasn't ready to admit to such a problematic emotion.”

“Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.”

“That night at Dumbarton was a classic of its kind. She had hopes still, I think, of enslaving me despite myself with her charms. And I probably thought the same. We both found we were mistaken. It had its moments; but she has the mind and morals of a jungle cat. She didn’t enjoy meeting … another of the same.”

“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”

“Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.”