“If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.”
“Well, he was certainly desirable-as desirable as Sam, maybe. Sam-when had she ever thought of him as desirable? He'd laugh until he died if ever knew she thought of him like that.”
“ I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .”
“She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.”
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
“She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.”