“How could someone with a bloody rag around their arm look that confident? Because he could sing someone to death?”

“I was so careful. How could he know?Someone told. Someone always tells.”

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

“Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.”

“How perfectly whimsical. I expect we’ll be roasting marshmallows over the fireplace and singing happy sing-alongs round about midnight, yes? Perhaps someone could point me in the direction of the dormitories.”

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”