“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”

“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”

“That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.”

“I watched him as he lay there, taking the needle without flinching and knowing that even the relief it brought was temporary, that his end was coming and he could not stop it—and knowing, too, that he was not afraid, and that he would do this the right way, as he had done everything else in his life the right way. And I knew this, too: Harry understood me. No one else ever had, and no one else ever would, through all time in all the world. Only Harry. The only reason I ever thought about being human was to be more like him.”

“I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.”

“I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.”