“I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“Six months of waiting. Six months of understanding the inner workings of faith and the outer spheres of the world. Six months of time: hundreds and millions of awakening seconds and sleeping minutes. Six months of aching stretched out like the Sahara: lickety-split, snippety-snip, jiggity-jig Six months of fading and blooming, stopping and starting. Six months of love: a breath, a deluge, an eternity; a single flake of snow.”

“I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to go away to some special school. Well, if I've got an invitation coming, now would be the perfect time to get it”

“A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him”

“Tsukiko Saionji: He doesn't look like a weed whacker.Aoi "Flippy" Kyogoku: But I'm a computer hacker, and a safe cracker, and a butt smacker...and I've got just the right equipment to trim your hedge.”