“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?”

“You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.”

“Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?”

“It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.”

“Logic is what the devil likes most.”

“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”

“Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?”