“Say 'Synchronize watches', Motti." Con batted her eyelids. "You know I love it when you say 'Synchronize watches'." Motti glowered at Con, put on a bad falsetto French accent: "Would everyone kindly confirm their watch is telling the same time as their neighbour's watch, yes?”

“You see? I have the run of this place." "Run? More like the zombie shuffle."-Yianna & Motti”

“You need to cool it some, geek." said Motti. "Why not go to the fridge, open the door, and stand there for a minute? Then grab a beer from inside and bring it to me." Jonah smiled despite himself. "Good of you to think of my welfare like that.”

“It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.”

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”

“When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.”

“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”