“Logic is what the devil likes most.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”

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