“It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.”
“You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-”
“Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.”
“But if I could just get som ehint, some sign..." Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affection. "That's the point behind faith," she says. "It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.”
“Nothing's wrong, I'm just tired-perhaps a little sad." "You don't get sad unless something's wrong.”
“Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore. ”