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

“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.”

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

“Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll”

“On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.”

“I'm staking out the bathroom to see if I can pick up chicks," he told her. "See? It worked.”

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