“Prejudices are comforting: everyone should make sure to cultivate at least three.”

“She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?”

“Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Stong people can walk away - no repercussions, you see, if you attack a stong person.”

“You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.”

“Simon would disapprove, in the way that people who lacked life experience always disapproved of others having adventures they had so far missed out on. ”

“We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.”

“Why treat the people closest to you like strangers?”