“Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”

“Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.”

“You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?" "No...""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”

“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”

“There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.”

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”