“If you want pay, then just be gay.”

“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”

“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”

“Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?”

“Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.”

“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”

“Please," Professor Solanka asked. "Just tell me.""That's the worst part," Dubdub said. "There's nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause. You wake up one day and you aren't a part of your life. You know this. Your life doesn't belong to you. Your body is not, I don't know how to make you this the force of this, yours. there's just life, living itself. You don't have it. You don't have anything to do with it. That's all. It doesn't sound like much, but believe me. It's like when you hypnotize someone and persuade them there's a big pile of mattresses outside their window. They no longer see a reason not to jump.”