“A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.”
“Jonas, Tate’s teenaged son … looking like mini-Tate, giving me the understanding that in a few years, me and every woman over twenty-five years of age in Carnal would be moved to become a cougar.”
“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”
“If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.”
“A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.”
“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”