“humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost Voices" by Sarah Porter,109)”

“I think at first I wanted to kill all of them. Everyone. Because if there were no people left alive, then I’d never have to love one of them again.”

“If you think the timahk is so silly, Anais," Catarina finally said in a silky, deadly, regal voice, "then by all means. Try breaking it.”

“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.”

“It's annoying how we blame ourselves, you know when John died, I was a wreck feeling that somehow I caused the accident, It is probably just human nature, trying to make sense of things, random things. I think the scariest part is realizing, sometimes bad things just happen, no reason, no purpose, they just occur and we are left to pick up the pieces. I quess that is what we are all doing all the time. Just picking up the pieces the best we can.”

“Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”