“Don't move, Anna Reiley. Right now, everything is perfect.”

“I think it was the right move, but if I can be allowed a mediocre generalization, don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”

“I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.”

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.”

“Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.”