“Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.”

“...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”

“It was strange. ... If she'd never gone to the Amazon, never met Ash, she would most likely have been perfectly content with Todd. She wouldn't have understood those fleeting flashes of emptiness that come upon a per¬son from time to time. Now she knew what they were: the yearning for what could have been, for the road never taken.”

“It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.”

“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention”

“I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.”