“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

“the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing.”

“The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.”

“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”

“It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them, motionless, you couldn't help but wonder -if only for a moment- whether they had died, and watch furiously for signs of life”

“The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.”