“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ”

“Being Dead means very light housekeeping”

“God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.”

“Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.”

“I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.”

“... human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.”