“Oh. Come on! I left my backpack on the bus.” According to Darwin, you’re a prime candidate for extinction. Too stupid to live!”
“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”
“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'Emma Darwin to husband Charles”
“someday no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that i did. because memories fall apart, too. and then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”
“Try to keep up with me,” he said very slowly, like I was a candidate for the short bus. “De-mon. Demon. Me demon, you teenage girl.”
“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”