“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

“So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.”

“Tired from my all-nighter with my friends, I just kept walking, my head bursting with their conversations, the things I had learned-Laura had had to take the morning-after pill-but none were as loud as the conversations I was having with myself in my head. That, I could never switch off. I don’t think I’d ever thought so much, and talked so little, in my life.”

“My first thought upon waking is of Cash. Licking my stomach. Tonguing my navel. And then looking so hard into my eyes.God, I could’ve devoured him right then and there!Damn the bad boys!”

“But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

“I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”