“I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.”

“I'm very sorry for the inconvenience."And he shot the concierge once between astonished eyes.”

“No she wouldn't," Miles said. "An ass is an ass”

“You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.”

“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.”

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain came before continuing my journey.”