“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.”

“No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. It's the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she.”

“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. ”

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

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

“Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives. ”

“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”